My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.
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.
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
I know it's superficial, and you can't measure art, which is supposed to be up to the individual, but I've watched the Oscars since I was a baby with my mother.
I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.
What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.
People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.
When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.
New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.
A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.
And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.
Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.
