My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.
My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.
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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.
In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning – after all this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.
I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.
I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
Saturday, October 31, 2026