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...

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content - driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

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.

Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart...

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

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.

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my...

Everything that flickered could be made permanent. That was what drew him to photography, what made every painstaking step worth it: the permanence of the image. That was what fascinated him, the...

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.

I know exactly what Einstein meant when he said, "Dancers are the athletes of God." You three look like angels. I can't wait to see you dancing in the Christmas concert.

An excellent photograph is the one which has excellently captured an excellent moment!

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.

Poets, with no sponsors, no agenda, are the truest form of freedom today, bleeding out every drop of themselves for the world to either hate or devour.

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