Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.
Owners of valuable works of art don't give to institutions that don't provide good air conditioning and have good shows.
More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!
My mum was a dancer when she was a kid. Then my parents met and eventually had an art gallery; my dad taught himself how to frame pictures, and then he was a curator at an art gallery in the city I'm from. I'm an only child.
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.
To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.
I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any art form, you can misuse it.
Managing bottom-up change is its own art.
A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it's got feathers and beads hanging off it. It's like a work of art.
Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.
Art is feminine... Look, if you're handsome and young and beautiful, well, people are always going to say that you're gay.
Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.
Actors have no color. That's the art form.
Haunted since the day its discovery was projected all over the world in 1994, I, like many others, have always wanted to see inside the Chauvet cave, site of the world's earliest known cave art. Quite rightly, we will never go. It is closed to the public.
Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
I was at a pretty rough school, and the only thing I was good at was art.
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.
I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.
I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.
I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
There are many things I do where the centre of it is... It's almost more my humanitarian work than art.
