art Quotes

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

Art is what you can get away with.

I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

The clothes of Courreges are so nice.