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Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

I don't worry about whether anyone knows anything about art.

One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

Art is not meant to change the world.