Art helped give me confidence.
Jeff Koons
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.
I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything.... →
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I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking... →
I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist. It was then I transferred to... →