Hans-Ulrich Obrist Quotes

One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.

I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist. I am always looking for that part that I have never done before, which makes it all the more difficult, because people want to hire you for what they've already seen you do.

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.

I think I come from a time when all the artists I grew up with and I loved always used to try and push the boundaries, and there doesn't seem so much of that, really.

Although I consider myself a direct descendant of the Renaissance heritage, I believe that an artist has to follow his own evolution and not solely be a ruminant of the past, as glorious as it may have been. An artist conducts a search that may lead him far out in exploring new areas of interest. I continually search to discover new and better means of expression.

Artists are blessed to travel all over the world. They see the trends before they even come out.

In music, they're not endlessly rewriting Beethoven's 'Third Symphony;' in visual art, they aren't painting portraits of 16th-century royalty. Art moves forward.

One thing that feels very important to me as an artist is to continually challenge myself and push myself to do all kinds of different things.

If people respect us as artists, they know we'll give them something different every time; they know we're pushing ourselves.

I like artists that tend to be more interested in reinventing themselves, in experimenting.

I get to do some unbelievably layered things. The material that I'm given is so complex, and I'm so grateful for it, so I welcome any opportunities to push boundaries.

You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.

Exposing yourself to many kinds of art can only lead to amazing things. It helps you learn about your own art, your own taste, what kind of art you want to create for yourself.

I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something, almost give you permission to look at something.

You don't have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different, searching for a new sensitivity, a new perspective, a new vision.

Part of the fun is finding out how elastic that box is and, you know, test the limits of what TV shows can do or what a music video can do.

As an artist you always want to challenge yourself, but as you get older you want to bring the audience with you while expanding creatively.

It's something I've recognized in the careers of those people who have been inspiring to me over the years - Neil Young, Kate Bush, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, and Prince. These are all people who constantly redefined themselves, and had to deal with the difficulty of trying to take their audience with them when they did that.

The reason I did 'PPNH' was because I wanted to do something different, wacky, and mainstream after 'Barfi!'

My philosophy through all my work, be it on canvas or on the street, is about pushing boundaries and not going with the flow because everyone else is doing something a certain way.

The plan was just to make great art, and working with Donald Glover, who is such a renaissance man, we've been working together for ten years, and he is always pushing the envelope in a way - like, whenever we work together, I have no idea what it is going to turn out to be.

I'm always concerned about growing as an artist.

Rarely, someone comes around that is influenced by so many things but is looking for a new way to do something.

One is never done growing as an artiste. So, it's important to find roles that challenge me and make me learn new things.