The degree to which the arts are included in our educational curriculum is totally inadequate. The arts are just as important as math and science in ….

Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence..

Today, we're encouraged to believe that we should have a verbal interpretation for what we view as art - when in fact the words are an intrusion on t….

Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit..

It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't matter if you have training or a background in it. Just create something, and lend a piece of yourself to th….

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators..

Now the time comes that I decided I only will do art films, basically. In a way, very similar to Isabella Rossellini. I prefer to work only with peop….

Criticism is easy, art is difficult..

The vampire or the bad guy, that's what people do remember. Lars von Trier, like Guy Maddin, their films are made for a group of exclusive people who….

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves..

The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because the….

[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived..

I'm never sure why I do anything, to tell you the truth..

I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience - at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways. ….

Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and how to die life..

I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art..

That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do..

In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made..

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all..

When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Ju….

Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humani….