Art Interviews

AA Bronson: “I’m as fearless as I ever was”

Ai Weiwei: “The power designs itself to crush you”

Albert Watson: “You never get that day back”

Alex Prager: “The idea is more important than anything”

Allen Jones: “There’s nothing you can do”

Amalia Dayan and Daniella Luxembourg: “It’s a personal quest”

André Saraiva: “The night is not a time, it's a place”

Andro Wekua: “This is much more vulnerable”

Anish Kapoor: “I have nothing to say”

Anne Imhof: “You get bolder over time”

Anton Corbijn: “My life is crazy, but it’s real love”

Axel Vervoordt: “I like evolution, not revolution”

Barry Blitt: “A joke cuts through everything”

Brigitte Lacombe: “My entire life has been my work”

Bronwyn Katz: “How I can extend the object’s life?”

Bryan Adams: “It’s like mining for diamonds”

Carla Sozzani: “You need generosity to do this”

Catherine Opie: “If you don’t make it, it’s not out there”

Catherine Wood: “How can we inhabit the image?”

Chiharu Shiota: “The fear is necessary”

Christo: “It’s not a profession, it’s existence”

Christoph Niemann: “I don’t need a big idea”

Claudia Comte: “It’s never-ending once you start”

Coco Capitán: “We have gone to the other extreme”

Cosey Fanni Tutti: “It’s like a metamorphosis”

Daniel Arsham: “It can take years to get there”

David Bailey: “How are you going to cross the road?”

David Doubilet: “My favorite picture is the one I haven’t taken”

David LaChapelle: “Everything was dramatic”

David Shrigley: “There is room for everything”

Dominique Lévy: “You need to constantly refill”

Douglas Gordon: “You pull yourself up and you push it out”

Ebecho Muslimova: “Making art is not a pleasant feeling”

Elizabeth Peyton: “History is contained within people”

Elmgreen & Dragset: “It’s time to change”

Erik Spiekermann: “A good concept will survive forever”

Erwin Wurm: “It only exists at this one time”

Fabien Baron: “We’ve just seen the beginning”

Francesco Clemente: “Making art is to time-travel”

Futura: “Artists have got to stop compromising”

Gab Bois: “If it’s yours, it’ll come”

Gabriel Massan: “Anything is possible”

Gabriel Orozco: “I try to be disappointing”

Gaetano Pesce: “The future is a beautiful time”

Gary Simmons: “You want to create questions”

Georg Baselitz: “The good things will never cause anyone to look”

Gilbert & George: “We don’t do art for the few”

Gunner Stahl: “You can tell if it’s real or not”

Hajime Sorayama: “Creating is my freedom”

Hans Ulrich Obrist: “I believe in generosity as a medium”

Harry Benson: “I’m keeping their image alive”

Helen Cammock: “I want to change whose stories are heard”

Ini Archibong: “I have to stay spiritually in tune”

Joel Meyerowitz: “You have to let go of something”

JR: “No one can own it”

Judy Chicago: “Get used to it!”

Juergen Teller: “You know when the work is good”

Julia Peyton-Jones: “You need that virtuous circle”

Julian Schnabel: “I never thought of art as a career”

Katharina Grosse: “I don’t see limits”

Kenny Gravillis: “It becomes a dance”

Kiki Smith: “I just try to follow it”

Larry Clark: “Why can’t you show everything?”

Lawrence Weiner: “There’s no secret in words”

Lee Mingwei: “We are not broken”

Leo Villareal: “There’s no agenda”

Liza Lou: “Survival is at the core of it”

Marco Brambilla: “There’s too much going on”

Marina Abramović: “I've always been a soldier”

Mark Seliger: “Let’s do something special”

Mark Wallinger: “A perfect mirror throws back everything”

Martin Parr: “I don’t expect to change anyone’s mind”

Martin Schoeller: “I don’t think you can capture a soul”

Maurizio Cattelan: “Show them life”

Mel Ramos: “Why not be naked in public?”

Michel Comte: “We need to listen to nature”

Mick Rock: “I blame the name”

Miles Aldridge: “You are trying to catch it”

Milton Glaser: “We’re all in it together”

Mona Hatoum: “It’s about shattering the familiar”

Mr. Brainwash: “If I believe it, it’s art for me”

Nick Knight: “I commit with my heart and soul”

Norman Jean Roy: “The camera used to carry this mystique”

Olafur Eliasson: “Things go wrong and we celebrate it”

Pat Steir: “I avoid struggle”

Pelle Cass: “I never fabricate”

Pete Souza: “You’re doing it every day, all day”

Peter Blake: “I’ll never have to fall off the mountain”

Peter Lindbergh: “Beauty has nothing to do with youth”

Peter Saville: “I never had to answer to anyone”

Petra Collins: “I know what it’s like to be there”

Rachel Whiteread: “I can let anything happen”

Ragnar Kjartansson: “I know how to hide my tracks”

Ralph Steadman: “The line becomes more aggressive”

Rashid Johnson: “I can do this?”

Refik Anadol: “I’m imagining a different world”

Richard Deacon: “A stop, but not a finish”

Rita Ackermann: “Nothingness is such a vast concept”

Robert Longo: “I went back to the beginning”

Robert Montgomery: “I tend to like the pathetic”

Robert Polidori: “Why is there a line?”

Robert Wilson: “It’s okay to get lost”

Roni Horn: “There’s nothing until there’s something”

Rose Wylie: “If it works, it works”

Ryan Gander: “It wants your attention”

Ryan McGinley: “I am just so fascinated by the body”

Saad Moosajee: “You have to resonate with it”

Sarah Morris: “There is no outside”

Sarah Sze: “How do we breathe life into objects?”

Sean Scully: “The poet was always in me”

Shirin Neshat: “You can’t demystify a myth”

Simon de Pury: “Curiosity is my engine”

Simon Starling: “The practice has its own momentum”

Space Invader: “You own the city”

Stefan Sagmeister: “Function alone is not doing it”

Steve McCurry: “It’s like hitting a drum”

Steve McQueen: “It’s about what’s right, not what fits”

Steve Schapiro: “It’s a question of how you see it”

Tara Donovan: “I don’t map it at all”

Thaddaeus Ropac: “People are hungry for new art”

Thomas Demand: “Aesthetics are inevitable”

Thomas Hirschhorn: “It is an emancipatory gesture”

Thomas Hoepker: “No rehearsal, just one click”

Thomas Joshua Cooper: “Preparation is all you can do”

Thomas Struth: “Now you've made it”

Tom Sachs: “Consumerism was a ritual”

Trevor Paglen: “Your job is to learn how to see”

Tyler Mitchell: “Art is meant to be visceral”

Vanessa Beecroft: “I’m repulsed by pop culture”

Willo Perron: “I never wanted to be very singular”
