Art Quotes
So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.
Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.
New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.
People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.
Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who were interested in the same things I was: popular culture.
Art is what gets communicated at a live show, which is why live shows are so amazing. To communicate in a different way is a mixed message. It devalues everything.
And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.
I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.
History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.
One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.
Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody. Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about? Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.
My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!
Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.
Thai society rarely attempts to control literature in the same way that it vigilantly polices visual art. It's ironic because people in this society are more aware of literature than they are of art.
People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.
The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.
I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.
The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.
I feel mushy these days when I think about art and artists and the work that lies ahead for us. There's good work to be done and there's joy to be found in it, I think.
Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.
I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.
Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
