It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.
Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.
They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.
Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.
I had no interest in high school besides art.
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.
The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
