Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.
Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process.
You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.
I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers.
In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.
The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?
Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.
I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work.
I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami.
Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.
Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
