In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.
What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.
When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.
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.
In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.
Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.
Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry.
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
