In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.
I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to really do that is to take on as many roles as possible, whether it be as an actor, an editor, a director, a cinematographer.
I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.
Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.
My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.
Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.
I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
