There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.
Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!
Something impacts me emotionally, art is a kind of outlet, and I figure it's the same for a lot of artists. The way my mind deals with things is cinematic.
I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art.
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.
Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American.
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.
When you walk down the street and see something in a crazy spot, there's something powerful about that. The street will always be an important part of getting art out there for me.
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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.
