Jamie Hewlett Quotes

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

I've been trying to make this argument that digital comics and print comics are both art, but there are subtle differences.

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.

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

If you want to look at a cheap shot, look at Mr. Koons's or Mr. Gober's art. By no definition is it art.

As a fan and collector of 'MAD' magazines as a kid, I am well aware that my art is unworthy. I remain in absolute awe of 'MAD' artist Mort Drucker and loved Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman and Al Jaffee and Don Martin and Angelo Torres and Peter Kuper and Sergio Aragones.

I am one of the lucky ones, to work with comic giants.

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers.

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.

I'm not interested in pop art.

Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed her work, because I find nothing in it to get excited about no matter how hard I look.

In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a lot of other things.

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.

When I started writing about art, there were no curators.

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or 'real' art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.