Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
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I think you just have to cross your fingers that there's enough artists out there that keep producing interesting work, and eventually it will form a kind of wave that will force people to pay attention to it.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven't given the experience itself. They had set themselves up as a sort of interpreter to the layman... Our interest is in a form where you realize that the media are just perception.
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.
When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.
Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.
One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.
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