Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.
You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.
We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.
There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a restaurant can be as much of an art as you want it to be, but it has to be a successful business first.
I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.
