Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.
The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.
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.
It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.
I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
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.
That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted.
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.
I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.
You really can't bring about anything new with art.
If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.
