I am a YouTube artist.

The art world doesn't exist in a vacuum.

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

Why an artist loves what they do is often so hard to describe.

Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.

Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated,...

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

I think 'Pan's Labyrinth' is genius.

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.

I studied realism when I was in art school.

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.

I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very good story. Maybe it's because the element of magic is so present in a...

I got a signed document from Bullock's saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale...

I realised that in my last two bodies of work - the mural and the Chanel pieces - that I didn't use any make-up because I was changing the faces digitally, and I realised I missed make-up in a major...

I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the...

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

Art fairs bring attention to up and coming artists and some amazing new works. They are a way to connect everyone with what's happening at the cutting edge of art, both new and historic.

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

The Hunger Games' is for eighth-grade girls! Winners read 'The Art of War!'

I like the irony in my work.

The fascination of somebody with original creative gifts is something that's always drawn me. I get attached to them, but I can't call it being in love, because the words are so debased.

A lot of art can potentially make people uncomfortable, particularly when it deals with different times and hard issues.