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.
A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.
