I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer..

To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically , I can say that photography ….

I have a fairly unwieldy set of concerns that go into determining what I do in the paintings, such as the history of the decorative, patterns of cult….

Football is an art form in itself. All sports are..

God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually..

Make my happiness--I will make yours..

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….

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 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..

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 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….

The truth of literature and art has always been granted (if it was granted at all) as one of a "higher" order, which should not and indeed did not di….

But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or they are i….

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real..

Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up that e….

Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restr….