When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning,….

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary..

If I don't understand it, it must be art..

I don't like hype cluttering art..

You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with..

I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood..

Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting spirit. Or t….

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits..

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows..

Philosophy is the art of dying.Philosophy is an activity that has always been concerned with how one seizes hold of one's mortality, and I see myself….

I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back..

I do want to have that feeling that people are actively involved in something, rather than just consuming something. I suppose that's what it comes d….

While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back….

What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form. No matter what form it may finally have….

My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled, and by Canadian Haida pieces.….

It seems to me that art has lost its connection to spirit..

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical….

Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you ne….

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and be….

As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equati….

I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ….