Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.