The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.
The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.
If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.
As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just as arbitrarily feel that they have the right to reject it.
It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
I need to be working with the art world in N.Y.C. as much as I need to be working in my studios in Chicago and rural Wisconsin.
The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.
Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
It would be obvious for me to do conceptual art, and I think I've done it already with smashing bass guitars and whatever - I consider that as conceptual.
What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.
