I was asked in 1969 by Lucy Lippard to define art. I think at the time I said that art was a matter of life and death, meaning just the breathing and…

- Tony Shafrazi

By the late '50s, something was happening in England, and it got to be quite exciting. The music world then started to explode with the Beatles and t…

- Tony Shafrazi

I'm happy that the evolution of art in the past 25 years, and the place of art in global culture-and even finance-has gotten to be so important. One …

- Tony Shafrazi

I think that the whole experience of living, breathing, thinking, and being lost in wonderment is, for me, that of being an artist. And the idea of i…

- Tony Shafrazi

The breakdown of the modern movement led to what later became known as postmodern-whatever the hell that means-referring to the mixture of people and…

- Tony Shafrazi

I think being from Iran sharpened my eye as an art dealer. This is why, today, I think the true definition of so-called postmodernism is the acceptan…

- Tony Shafrazi

For me, being Christian Armenian, born into the Islamic culture in Iran and then, at the age of 13, being sent to England and embracing the English c…

- Tony Shafrazi

I think that the first responsibility of an artist is to follow truth, and the innate original forces and energies that are within them. At the same …

- Tony Shafrazi

The image of the bank robber I had in mind was more in the European tradition where you'd rob banks and give to the poor, like Robin Hood. It was tha…

- Tony Shafrazi