Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.
Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.
All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art.
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
It's kind of funny, with all of the different outlets that come from acting that you could try, I would love to direct and kind of be involved in art direction, too.
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
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.
My parents were always supportive of me in terms of expressing myself artistically. Art, musical instruments, singing - whatever I did, they were just really supportive.
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.
One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it.
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.
Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.
Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
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.
I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
