I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.
It is hard to separate the art from the artist.
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
I haven't had the opportunity to study visual art, but it was always my first love when it came to artistic expression. I started drawing and experimenting with visual art when I was 5.
People use the guise of art, and artistic expression, to do all kinds of hateful things. It's like Trump and everybody else using the guise of humor to say hateful things, the excuse being, 'I was just being funny.'
China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential for artistic expression far greater than anyone would ever have dreamed possible until today. It is this very spirit of the struggle and determination to triumph that inspires creative expression.
I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
At a certain point, I had so much artwork that I decided to respect the art and present them in a nice way, not just on a dusty shelf.
From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.
There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
