Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.
Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.
Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
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.
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 have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.
