I started under my master, Etienne Decroux, who taught me a new grammar for mime he called statuary mime. This grammar brings style creations. Without it, no art survives.
Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.
You don't fully understand the meaning of a work until the audience responds to it. Because the audience completes the circle, and adds a whole other shade of meaning. Whenever you view something, and this is why great works of art survive decades and centuries, is because there's a door within the work that allows the audience to walk through and complete the meaning of the work. An audience isn't passive, nor are they unintelligent.
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?
I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.
One need not fear for the future of music.
No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.
What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.
Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.
We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.
High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.
What I'm trying to do is bring young people into doing tap so that the art form will keep going.
I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.
Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.
