A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.
Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.
Nothing will stop you from being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.
Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it’s in them in the first place.
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 meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two or at times, submerged in either.
This type of soul, this type of art takes a while to cook. It’s like when my wife cooks for me and I always ask for greens. She never wants to cook the greens because they take three hours to cook.
The arts are at the center of a nation’s purpose and a test of civilization.
Good art will speak to you if you give it a chance.
She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
We’ll buy some drugs and watch a band and jump in a river holding hands.
We’re here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference on this planet. That’s what art forms are about.
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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.
MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.
If you believe in your art and you love what you do, that energy will go out and people will respond.
The essence of all Art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
