Art Quotes

“I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe in owning art, anyway.”

“I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.”

“The real art of what we do, at least back in the old-school days, was improv. If you were a great worker, you were able to adapt and that skill developed over time because of all the traveling and working in different areas. You learned how to read a crowd.”

“Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists.”

“Opera cuts to the chase—as death does. An art which seeks, more obviously than any other form, to break your heart.”

“It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.”

“My advice to new artists is to forget about all of this and take acting and dancing lessons and become a video star.”

“It's not that I can't find art beautiful. I just don't know what to do, standing there in the gallery. I don't know what to think about. Once I've seen it, I've seen it; that takes about two seconds. I am interested and then immediately bored, immediately.”

“As an artist, I really feel I need an outlet to exhibit all of my skills.”

“Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.”

“This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.”

“I think what we do best, in the artistic world, are the things where we're handicapped.”

“Erik Satie died on July 1, 1925; his last words were 'Ah, the cows...”

“I never tell my artists how to rap or how to approach a song. I let them do the song.”

“My kids, I love it when they tell me, 'Abba, I want to be an artist.' And I say, that is awesome... I just want you to be happy and to follow your heart.”

“Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?”

“Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.”

“Writing for myself and writing for another artist are two very different experiences. When I handle both the story and the art, I have full control. I can endlessly tweak every word and every line.”

“What I feel responsible for is, if my name is on a comic, I want it to be the best-written comic that I can possibly do. I want it to include some new things we haven't seen before, new story ideas, new characters. Quality, quality art, all those kinds of things.”

“Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.”