Quotes About Art

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.

One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.

Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.

Art is far feebler than necessity.

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.

So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.

Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who were interested in the same things I was: popular culture.

Art is what gets communicated at a live show, which is why live shows are so amazing. To communicate in a different way is a mixed message. It devalues everything.

Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.

I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.

Pop art is a way of liking things.

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.

Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.

I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.