I always want to create and do things, or draw.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of...

My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his...

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Cleanliness is the scourge of art.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing I realize how...

In America, we know to ignore artists if they're serious in any way.

Action speaks louder than words, but if someone judged you by your tattoos, that means they are STUPID not to understand art and missed the meaning of art for art's sake.

Most critics, fond of subservient art still make the whole depend upon a part. They talk of principles, but notions prize And all to one loved folly sacrifice.

Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human.

We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn't discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.

Art is a kind of magic. Creativity is mysterious, even to artists, who might be able to name their inspiration but can't always explain how their influences and experiences came together to create...

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Music is for souls & hearts to dance & sing. Art is for expressing your visionary being. Words are tools for exploring & celebrating. Time is a pool to swim & dream & create in. Waste not one jot of...

Art has simple founding principles: Less is more, more or less; fill in the blanks with no filler.