Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.
Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.
I can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be. You don't make art by consensus.
A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things.
At Roden Crater, I was interested in taking the cultural artifice of art out into the natural surround. I wanted the work to be enfolded in nature in such a way that light from the sun, moon and stars empowered the spaces. I wanted to bring culture to the natural surround as if one was designing a garden.
For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought.
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
Unlike with any other art form, filmmakers have this unique web of festivals. There are hundreds. It is a democratic system in which you submit films, and if they are good enough, they play. The only barrier to entry is the submission fee.
My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.
I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
If I have extra money, I always love to support my friends who're making art.
Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort level and perception.
In order to figure this artmaking stuff out, it's trial and error and experimentation, and takes some time and hard thinking. Putting work out in many forms and stages is an extension of how I see things. I feel the art process is best served when it invites comments and constructive criticism from people.
So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
Textiles embody all the dimensions of art: color, innovation, talent.
There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
I went to an art school in high school and got in a little trouble like you do when you're a teenager and not being closely supervised. I did. I followed the Dead around, and it was fun. It was great. It was kind and sweet and lovely.
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.
For me, art doesn't stop at the gallery space.
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
