There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.
An artist is a person who has invented an artist.
At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause -it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory of miseries and triumphs will, it is expected, strengthen the unity of the group and its determination to achieve a better future. But emphasizing shared experience as opposed to the artist's consciousness of self (which includes his personal and unshared experience of masterpieces) brings to the fore the tension in the individual artist between being an artist and being a minority artist.
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.
There are some remedies worse than disease.
I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.