I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
I believe that true art is universal in its appeal.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.
I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.
Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.
It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.
I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.
'Interview' created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people's doorsteps every month.
