Art Quotes

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand, because those are the only good things.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.

There is no such thing as modern art. There is art - and there is advertising.

The only thing worse than symbolism is blatant symbolism.

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

Sometimes we blur the distinction between art and life; sometimes we try to clarify it. We don't stand on one leg. We stand on both.

Significance is inherent in the human body.

Responsible artists try to affect you sensually in a way that enlarges your experience.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

Pay for soup, build a fort, set that on fire

Our time is so short and the future so terrifyingly long. Through the art of brush, pen, and lens ... we possess a swift and sure means of touching the conscience and clearing the vision.

No art is possible without a dance with death.