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Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
I always tell people that I went through long hair. I was a typical art school scruff. It was good then.
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
I've always believed that as an artist, as a writer, you need a lot of contact with other people to make your art good.
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.
I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
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.
Religions have always been clearly on to this psycho-therapeutic score. For hundreds of years in the West, Christian art had a very clear function: it was meant to direct us towards the good and wean us off vice.
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.
One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance artist who was always doing this for free. It is so important to make a good living from art. You know, John Cage, until he was 60, he couldn't pay electricity.