We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.
To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.
I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
To be frank, I find religion rather offensive.
[My father] had a name for the bottom of the sky--'the hem of heaven.
I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have.
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't.
Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop.
It's the same misconception I used to have. I meet people and think they're millionaires and they're not.
I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.
At big championships it's not the fastest person, it's the person who gets it right on the day.
