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Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.

It's been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing about writing. This may be true, there are similarities - both the verbal and the visual represent the thing or the concept.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.