I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a visit to an art gallery. Its beauty and craftsmanship are utterly wasted if you think of it as something magical and symbolic.
Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously.
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. I want them to serve another purpose.
When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.
Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.
When you walk down the street and see something in a crazy spot, there's something powerful about that. The street will always be an important part of getting art out there for me.
Gujarat is truly vibrant. Be it handicrafts, folk music, art, costumes or food - the state offers the best of everything.
I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's too obtuse or esoteric.
I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.
Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it.
Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.
My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.
