My parents were always supportive of me in terms of expressing myself artistically. Art, musical instruments, singing - whatever I did, they were just really supportive.
Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.
In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.
I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.
If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!
Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.
To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.
I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.
Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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.
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.
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.
Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.
The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.
Art is sacred. Punk rock is freedom. Expression and right to express is vital. Anyone can be artistic.
The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.
Most great artists define a new and unique region of hell.
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
