“Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?”
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“If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.”
“It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.”
“Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.”
“I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.”
“It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.”
“I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.”
“Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.”
“Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.”
“Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.”
“I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.”
“The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.”
“Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.”
“Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.”
“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”
“Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.”
“But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.”
“The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?”
“Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.”
“The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.”
“The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.”
“The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.”
“I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.”
“Art must take reality by surprise.”