It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its suggestiveness, through which it ….

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you..

Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that ….

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but p….

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure….

It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the gro….

To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of ….

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable..

I work with digital audio, which is like sculpting, a form of chiseling down metal or wood. And I take audio and move it back and forth between the a….

Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing..

All human action is expressive; a gesture is an intentionally expressive action. All art is expressive - of its author and of the situation in which ….

Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates….

Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers..

I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a poli….

I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone..

I'm just going to be me..

I left film because I felt that photography was my art. It was something I could do on my own, whereas film was so collaborative. I thought as a phot….

I don't believe that you can put content into art. The content is in yourself..

You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to arg….

Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the v….

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too….