arts

"When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event."

"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."

"There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause."

"The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art."

"I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist."

"I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that."

"Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love."

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

"One eye sees, the other feels."

"The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness."

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

"Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare."

"Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis."

"Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture."

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."

"One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil."

"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."

"There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!"

"Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper."

"Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future."