A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have to do with the set of expectations that the vi….

Everything we see is inside our own heads..

No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising it from ordin….

To live an art-filled life, one must be willing to try new things & accept that things change..

In my day everything wasn't so PC..

You can create art that makes people feel better..

The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life ….

My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18, that was an early equivalent of educational television. Sunday afternoon kind….

A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create..

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?.

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form..

An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it..

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony..

There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity..

I always had something to think about or draw from, which as an actor is a gift. The beautiful thing about film is that it gets so much closer than s….

I was selling a piece of my art on eBay from The Escapist, which was an adaptation of The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and the person who bought ….

By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the poss….

Fear of failure and criticism can be crippling. Don't let others' negativity take away your joy..

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists..

I felt so nourished by the process of making [Moana], of you're always engaged with other artists from different disciplines, and it's about bringing….

Mastering the art of resilience does much more than restore you to who you once thought you were. Rather, you emerge from the experience transformed ….