Art Quotes
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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
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Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it's a folk-art form, really, at its best. At different times, I've tried to push against it as much as I possibly could, but ultimately, it is a folk-art form.
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Film is the most liberal of arts and, at the same time, it can be a very conservative art. Money that is involved in filmmaking is distributed mostly to men, thus creating a celluloid ceiling for women.
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I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.
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While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
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What I've really liked doing is combining what you might call art criticism or music criticism with something that is happening in real life.
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You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.
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Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived... The beauties of the Parthenon, Venuses, Nymphs, Narcissuses are so many lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.
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Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.
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I don’t consider my own clothing to be outrageous... The truth is that people just don’t have the same references that I do. To me it’s very beautiful and it’s art, and to them it’s outrageous and crazy.
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People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
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Fundamental to everything the ancient Greeks achieved was their conviction that good for humanity was possible only if men were free, body, mind, and spirit, and if each man limited his own freedom. A good state or work of art or piece of thinking was possible only through the self-mastery of the free individual, self-government.
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Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.
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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
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Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.
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Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
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Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.
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Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
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One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.
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My friend Josh Glenn compiles terrific lists of genre novels from the mid-20th century. His latest is a list of the ten best adventure novels of 1966. Josh also includes the cover art of early editions of the books, which are always much better than the art on newer editions. I want to read every book in this list!
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Here is one of the best bits of advice every given about the fine art of human relationships. 'If there is any one secret of success,' says Henry Ford, 'it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.'
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The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
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The core of my writing is not art but truth.
