We play different people - our art form is performance art - so unless you're playing the same type of person, I don't know if you could improve or m….

I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I don't look at this ….

Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make thos….

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect..

Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves, or if th….

I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature, poetry that will be re….

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format..

Most contemporary artists are behind the bubble in time. They're making videos that are so incredibly boring compared to a good movie. Or they're mak….

Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance.... By the elimination of all muddy colors, by the exclusive us….

Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, b….

But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art not….

In our conversations, he [Michael Jackson] revealed a surprising understanding of art history. We were going through the finer points of the differen….

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is..

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture,….

A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she has cultivated them. The possession o….

Necessity is the author of change..

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts..

Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way..

Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we shut down and hide out in our h….

I'd say art is with you. All around you. I'd say when there doesn't seem to be anyone else, there is art. I'd say you can love art how you wish to be….

And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of wate….