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.
Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
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.
