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Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

Art is a kind of illness.

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.