You ever tasted a smell? It's a very strange feeling. I've done it quite a few times and it still freaks me out.
Can art change the world? Maybe. . . we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?
Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can.
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.
The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.
The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork.
There is a tradition that the church represents, without which we wouldn't have the church, that's all about diving deep beneath the surface of the culture and finding those timeless, eternal truths that the whole Christian enterprise is rooted in. And one of those is that you don't come to God at 180 miles an hour.
Isn't it about time you fought back?
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.