I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.
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Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.
Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.
I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.
Art should be created for life, not for the museum.
It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.