Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.
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I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.
I think there is a hunger for things that wake you up, something that makes you peel back your eyes, that reminds you that you are alive. Art is at its best when it is in the 'now.'
Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.
I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.
I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.
I can concentrate on my art.
Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.
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