It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something that requires special conditions. I would like it to be universal.
I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
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.
At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
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.
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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.
It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.
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.
