It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.
For me, art is always a kind of theater.
The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it ...
That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.
There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.
I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.
Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.
To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.
Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics.
Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.'
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.
Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?