Quotes on Art

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

For me, it's about making art that's not good but phenomenal. James Baldwin didn't want to just stay above the fray. Prince didn't think, 'I wonder what the industry is gonna think about 'Purple Rain.'' It's just, is this honest? Is this real? Does this move me? The rest is icing.

What I try to do is defy expectations in terms of boundaries, whether it is high or low art, pop culture, or fine-art culture. My work is about reconciling myriad cultural influences and bringing them into one picture.

Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

Science is not formal logic-it needs the free play of the mind in as great a degree as any other creative art. It is true that this is a gift which can hardly be taught, but its growth can be encouraged in those who already posses it.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it becomes compulsive, or because it has made us realize something about ourselves, or has brought about some slight change in us. Perhaps the reader can recall some image, after the seeing of which he has never been quite the same.

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.