Art Quotes
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
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'Billy on the Street' is a persona. It's crafted; it has writers. It's a mixture of performance art and comedy.
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Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.
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We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art, you have to remain 110% conscious, and in a world that's losing consciousness, that's getting harder.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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Somehow, whenever we think about race or blackness in relationship to art, we always come in kind of nervous. We always think someone's about to be punished or accused of something.
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There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
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The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
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I watched films growing up, but no more than the next guy, really. Working on 'Hugo' made me appreciate cinema and the art of cinema a lot more.
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I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
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I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.
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'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.
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My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.
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My art has no object, no image, no point of focus.
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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
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A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.
