The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things.
I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles of populism and social consciousness I aspire to in my own practice.
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.
People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.
Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.
To err is human, to purr is feline.
Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that.
Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.
Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.
There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Always make time to eat. Always. There’s enough starving children in the world without adding to their number
I’m glad to be eating the bread of freedom even if it does taste like sponge buttered with greasy salt.
Eva: I don't want any tea. Lil: Don’t make me have it on my own.
If it’s God you’re worried about, the Lord Jesus said that we needn’t keep to the old ways anymore. They had their day years ago.
The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.
I vaguely remember my schooldays. They were what was going on in the background while I was trying to listen to the Beatles.
Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemos.
