Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.
It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
The people that are fans of animation are really the people that are keeping the art form of animation alive. If you like cartoons, support the cartoons.
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
My feet are not a good part of my body. They definitely have suffered for my art. They're, like, all bunions and blisters.
I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.
You really can't bring about anything new with art.
