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My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!
Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.
When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.
I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
The true mark of maturity is when someone hurts you and you try and understand their situation instead of hurting them back.
In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.
David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.
The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.
Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.
There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.
I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.
If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy.
What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.
Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.
Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.
The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.
...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.
Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.
I believe in myself. I believe in my vision, my life, my talent, my art. More than anyone. No one can take that away from me.
W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you.
When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.
I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.
Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.
I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.