I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

In every work of art the subject is primordial whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

I think of art at its most significant as a DEW line a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week and no matter what kind of mood I'm in no matter how bad the art is I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.

Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces questions what an object is wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art in the mid-eighties I almost always dismissed it as mannered Romantic formulaic conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

Evil is done without effort naturally it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

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.

Evil is committed without effort naturally fatally goodness is always the product of some art.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet but soon will and will change everything for everybody and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible never the impossible.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion on the other hand produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company comforts and inspires.