arts

"The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."

"It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work."

"I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work."

"The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill."

"Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see."

"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."

"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves."

"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected."

"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."

"Minimal art went nowhere."

"In reality art is always for everyone and for no one."

"When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process."

"I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand."

"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."

"Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more."

"The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

"Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.''Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake."