China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential for artistic expression far greater than anyone would ever have dreamed possible until today. It is this very spirit of the...
I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my ...
My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.
These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze.
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.
I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.
The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.
We want to raise the art of living well.
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.
There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century.
The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.
I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film.
All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.
Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American.
