Temporary Art Quotes

Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.

I wrote a poem on my leg once, on the skin.

I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.

Public art is ephemeral by nature. Google 's new project not only catalogs an artist's work but archives it and allows people to see the art long after it has disappeared.

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over an hour or a decade.

Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.

At the opening of our exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York we featured a wall of 10,000 bananas. Green bananas created a pattern against a background of yellow bananas spelling out the sentiment: Self-confidence produces fine results. After a number of days the green bananas turned yellow too and the type disappeared. When the yellow background bananas turned brown, the type (and the self-confidence) appeared again, only to go away when all bananas turned brown.

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be.

One of the interesting things about skateboarding and graffiti is that skateboarding exists in the documentation of an act.

I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people to find something nice and intriguing to puzzle over. Then I'd go back to see if the things were still there, or if anyone would notice.

Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.

I got a lot of body paint on me in a short period of time. I would definitely do it again because Joann Gair is so brilliant, but I would definitely need, like, a good long break for it.

While I'm totally up for all things girly, two months of mehendi is a fairly long time!

I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.

Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.

I like to do designs on the side of my face, or cut out foil stickers from the crafts store and put them on my forehead.

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

...and my signature is drawn in magic markeron the lower right hand corner of the windowso when something passes in the darkit's captured for a moment inside my work.

I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.