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Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

History develops, art stands still.

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.