I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly.
Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.
One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drown...
Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?
I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm...
Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.
When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.
Whether it be personal or musical, I just think I'm a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.
Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.
Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.
