Tumblr culture and the whole reappropriation-without-context thing are a double-edged sword in that they both raise awareness of my work and also kind of devalue it at the same time.
I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world.
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
None of the established museums were treating cartoons seriously. It was considered a lesser art or no art at all, just a way to sell newspapers. Even the syndicates who were dedicated to the cartoons were throwing them out, figuring they had no value after they were printed.
The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn't receive the same treatment as art in the sense of the value of what it is, especially nowadays when it's been devalued and diminished to almost the point that it has to be given away for free.
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.
When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.
Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.
The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.
It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.
Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.
You can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well.
Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.
So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?
