The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.
Anything is art if an artist says it is.
It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.
Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
Destruction is also creation.
It's the viewer that makes the work.
Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
Humor is the only reason to live.
As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.
The only thing that is not art is inattention
I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.
I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There is an unnecessary adoration of ‘art’ today.
You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.
Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.
I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.
Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing.
Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.
Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.
To all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing. If we give the attributes of a medium to the artist, we must then deny him the state of consciousness on the aesthetic plane about what he is doing or why he is doing it. All this decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis, spoken or written, or even thought out.
I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.
I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.
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