Everyday Art Quotes

To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage.

I've always seen TV as... it didn't occupy the same rarefied space as literature, but it's art you can use day to day. I've never been hung up on where it figures in the hierarchy of learning.

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.

Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.

As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.

There is art in everything - industry, education, play, all are forms of art.

Art-making was part of my daily life from a very young age, and I still love that kind of everyday art-making.

Part of what I do and what I want to do is I want to bring art into the everyday life. If you can take ordinary just walking in the street and you're confronted by something, that might change your day - it might inspire you.

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art