An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art.
If the world were clear, art would not exist.
Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?
Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.
I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.
There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.
Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.
Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.
I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would still be art without religion. Bach is not proof that art exists.
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
