There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of my work.
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.
I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.
I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.
When I work with my art department on putting imagery together for my blog posts I always think, 'Would I pin this?' That really helps.
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's too obtuse or esoteric.
I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.
Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.
My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.
The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.
I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.
Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.
W- Work of Art A- Achiever R- Resilient R- Radical I- Independent O- Organized R- Resourceful
