I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.
You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.
You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'
I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the univer...
While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.
People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.
In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed ...
On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
