A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.
I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.
These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze.
I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.
Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?
Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.
When you look at that period when Warhol and the Velvets and the Stones were doing things, it was this intersection of art and music. And then it went away.
A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.
I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.
I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery.
I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month.
There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.
I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.
I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
I don't watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.
I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
