The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prev….

We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement….

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.............. Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that i….

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else..

What gets me excited by the process of making art is how unrelated elements get fused, which is a formal process. The content is the easy part. Putti….

'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot..

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside..

I think circumstance plays a big part in terms of what I do. For example, if I wasn't ever able to show in an art gallery I probably wouldn't really ….

The problem with our art form: it's so ephemeral, and catching performances can be so difficult... the important thing is what happens at the moment ….

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline..

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy..

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On ….

I think about my art works as paintings, because they refer to the history of painting. I also have to think about them as sculptures, because every ….

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics. We're talking about a closeted person with mini….

I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors, and filming in different places. I like movies, b….

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts..

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless..

The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfi….

Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page..

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know wher….

The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define t….