Quotes About Engagement

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about or even looking at.

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

My fingers always seem busier than my mind.

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is.

Art is about paying attention.

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

Teaching is a performance art.

Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Whatever art is, it is no longer something primarily to be looked at. Stared at, perhaps, but not primarily looked at

Art is basically entertainment.

Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some kind of participation.

The only thing that is not art is inattention

Branding is the art of becoming knowable, likable and trustable.