arts

"I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."

"I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art."

"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."

"Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art."

"Pictures must not be too picturesque."

"In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that."

"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."

"Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art."

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."

"With an apple I will astonish Paris."

"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."

"I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions."

"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself."

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

"We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art."

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

"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."

"I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it."