Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.
I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.
I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'
No matter what kind of artist you are, you like good music.
I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man.
As far as I'm concerned, there is no line between high art and pop art, and there should be no line.
I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.
I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.
I didn't learn the word 'genre' until way, way late - I mean, like, in the '80s.
