Quotes About Art

I think art cannot be planned. The audience is too smart to get the dishonesty or 'too much planning' thing. I am not a legend, but I want to be one. I want to be known as an achiever. There is so much more that I can do.

My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call them flashes, because they come to me, like that. Not so much in the plant drawings. I have to see them.

Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.

In the 1980s, Josef Beuys planted the seed that activism could be considered as art. I am influenced by the idea of his idea of social sculpture.

Matisse draws what I call the essence of the plants. He leaves a shape open. He'll do a leaf and not close it. Everybody used to say, oh, I got it all from Matisse, and I said, 'Not really.'

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.

My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

Laurie Simmons began showing her photographs in New York in the late '70s: black-and-white and then candy-colored scenarios with plastic dolls in 1950s-style domestic interiors.

One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this fact, for it reveals the true way of art - the only path along which we can advance.

The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.

I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.

When you hold something you created, drew, and conceived, and now here it is in 3D plastic - it is a rush.

I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.

My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism.

I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves.

Theater is my favorite platform. Television is my favorite paycheck. The more television I can do, the more theater I can do.

It feels nice to be able to call Brainfeeder my home. It's giving art the platform. That's what Brainfeeder has always been for me: hope for art.

It's my job as an artist and as an actor to use this platform to make people learn and grow, to change their perspectives on how things are in whatever way I can.

At the Big Bad Lab, we build participatory art and media platforms for causes, communities and organizations we care about.

I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally it hurts. But I found that after the arm was put back together I could draw better than before. I have no idea why.

'Let the music play on' would be my legacy.

It is never right to play ragtime fast.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.