The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
Every step on my way to becoming an artist seemed preordained. The right people were always in the right places at the right times to boost me to the next level. I was fortunate to be selected for a summer drawing class offered to teens at the Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County.
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.
I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.
There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.
Perhaps the world of art is just one vast pretence, in which we all take part since, after all, there is no real cost to it, except to those like Charles Saatchi, rich enough to splash out on junk?
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.
Wine pricing is an art - like painting.
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.
An artist is made to entertain. That's their primary goal, to entertain you. But some artists record the moments of time. You wouldn't know what was happening in the '20s and '30s; you got to check the song or art.
