The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.
I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?
I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which we have lost, but which places obligations on us.
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.
I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.
When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.
In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.
The word "ungodly and word-group" in Jude...It describes, not theoretical atheism, but practical godlessness.
To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.
With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.
The clear light of science teaches us that we must be our own saviors, if we are to be found worth saving.
..and though my internal organs were Barry White, my stamina had skipped CDs and decided to be more Vanilla Ice.
The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world.
... until it had acquired the strength to create in my mind a fresh example of absolute, unproductive beauty...
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
