Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.
There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.
I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.
There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.
Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.
One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.
Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be seen as a form of public art.
Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.
Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.
I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.
