What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.
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We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.
The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.
All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.
People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.
Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
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