Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland; Still born to improve in every part, His pencil out faces, his manners are heart.

The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm; The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.

It's a legitimate political question, ... I would assume that they wouldn't make a decision on that without running it by the president of the United States.