I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

I do kind of think there's a bit of an overemphasis on - in the community - on sort of achieving ever-so-slightly better state-of-the-art results on particular problems, and a little underappreciation...

Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather possess a freehold, though but a cottage, than live in a palace belonging to another.

Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.

Songs, a while ago, became the medium through which I process most of the information that I receive and feel. But I go back and forth about whether this is all of life or whether you're missing...

Art Nouveau drew inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus drew inspiration from engineering.

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

I don't make a particular distinction between 'high art' and 'low art.' Music is there for everybody. It's a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it.

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

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.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of...

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

Sometimes ideas come so quickly that I have to stop working on one song to start another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you...

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.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art...