I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.
The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.
The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in...
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.
A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things.
The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.
The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales, newspapers, novels, films, works of art of all kinds.
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.
I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.
I'm a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing. I have a heart and a soul and I want to touch people and give.
Timing has a lot to with art.
Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.
