Artistic Criteria Quotes

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

For me, my continuous struggle with every project is, "Is it better than 'Pink?'"

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting. It was a lot of work - anything other than Shakespeare was less work. I had a lot of interesting roles, but I don't point to them and say, "That was more interesting than that," because I don't know what the criteria are.

I feel sometimes constrained by the expectation that the work should be solely political. I try to create a type of work that is at the service of my own set of criteria, which have to do with beauty and a type of utopia that in some ways speaks to the culture I'm located in.

I'm really picky about stuff like videos or even pictures of the band, but at the same time, I don't really know what it is I want; I just know what I don't want.