Truth exists in art.
Good art will speak to you if you give it a chance.
Bad artists imitate, great artists steal.
From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as already artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.
It’s like telling Michelangelo: ‘I know you painted this dope angel, that was really good, but Michelangelo, I don’t think you can paint a cow.’
The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.
There is nothing new… everything has roots in the past.
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What’s left of the man when the work’s done but a shambles of apology.
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
There is only 1 difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.
I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.
The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.
