Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
Mos Def
African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be... →
Hip-hop is the last true folk art.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.
Jeffrey Deitch
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.
Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.