Art Quotes
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Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'
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Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
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The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.
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I'll never forget my first Art Basel.
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Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that we weren't told about: the moral police. No qualifications, no training, no understanding of actual morality, but they have a degree in the art of being offended.
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My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.
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Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.
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After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.
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I've done art on my own, and I've also collaborated with other people to make art. And collaborating with other people is always interesting because you end up doing things you probably wouldn't do otherwise.
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The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.
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I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
