Quotes About Perspective

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.

I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has made going to art museums way more fun than you can imagine.

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

Art is good but it isn't the best.

Everybody's an art critic.

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

Art critics are like every other critic.

I never made "feminist art," and if I did it was not deliberate.

Collaboration is necessary for making great art. Everybody has a perspective on what they think or feel the material should ultimately look like when it hits the screen.

Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it.

Art is ultimately schizophrenic.

Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.