I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.
I can concentrate on my art.
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
If art means as much to you as it does to me, or even if you're just exploring the art world for the first time, I invite you to turn off the boob tube, pry the Wii controllers from your kids' hands, and drag them to a museum.
You don't have to be Pope Julius to have great art in your house.
Your kids might feel more apt to try some art of their own after viewing contemporary works that are far less intimidating than those of the Old Masters.
I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York.
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.
My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.
People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.
All art is but imitation of nature.
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
