If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.
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.
Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.
I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
You should be able to be influenced by art no matter where it comes from.