Art Quotes
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I wondered why I hadn't realized before that art was hard because you had to recreate not merely the scene but the way it soared into your soul and changed you.
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The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.
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I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without that, and that's cool, but I like to look at the art.
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One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and art as his tool. A product of the marketplace sensibility, this attitude barely differs on a psychological plane from the patron's view of the artist as a paid employee.
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Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.
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Make life an art rather than art from life.
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.
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I love to work, and to make all kinds of work. But if I work on a fashion story then I work for somebody. If I work for me, for an art project, then I'm not that nervous. It doesn't matter when the photo is done. And if I work on a fashion shoot, then I have access to all these things that I can use later for my art - a still life here or there. I can do all of this while the model is changing.
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Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.
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I create art. It's kinda abstract.
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Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.
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In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.
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Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
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I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.
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The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion.
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When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.
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The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms a leitmotif in the history of art. Confounding subject and object, it undermines the speaking position of the individual woman artist by generalizing her. Denied her individuality, she is displaced from being a producer and becomes instead a sign for male creativity.
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It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds, each enhancing and reinforcing the other.
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This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.
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Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair.
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When I was a kid, I did martial arts because boxing wasn't really available on Long Island. I think now kids are able to begin boxing earlier. So it's great and whatever can promote the sport on a whole is a good thing. And if we can do it on Long Island, where I am from, it's a beautiful thing.
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Art can articulate new ideas.
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Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.
