Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Marshall McLuhan
Art is anything you can get away with.
I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.
Steve McQueen
Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am... →
Ian Mcewan
I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear.... →
Malcolm Mclaren
Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a... →