Art Quotes
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I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art, although not very good at it.
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The definition of public art to me means everything and means nothing because for me, all art is public. Art has to be public by definition and in a way It has to be accessible to any audience not just a work in a museum or an art gallery.
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As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.
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Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.
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An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
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Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.
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I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.
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Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.
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Interviewing is not a democratic art.
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Art doesn't sell itself, it has to be sold.
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The greatest of all the arts is the art of living together!
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It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.
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Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.
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Dark art honors suffering
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.
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At that childhood time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only thing that was taught in the schools.
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No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.
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Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.
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I think, for some artists, the fear of taking on a political identity stems from not wanting to be pigeonholed as political actor or a political musician. It becomes this thing where somehow your art can no longer exist on its own and be multifaceted.
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I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
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When I can see someone that's posting the way that they're thinking about what's happening in the world right now or even art that they've created, it inspires me to do the same. It makes me turn off my phone and go paint a painting or go hike a mountain or go record a song. Those are the kind of things that social media helps me do. But it also can make me sit in my room and not do anything.
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I love movies and I love art - and an architect is an entertainer, the guy who builds a rollercoaster is an entertainer. He knows where to build the slopes, and the big anticipation when you go up... He makes you go, 'Oh my God!' when you get to the top before you come down. It's just the same as structuring a show or a dance.
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They firmly believe it to be the sole function of art to minister to their personal comfort — as upholstery does.
