The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film..

The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment ….

This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy" painted by Thomas Gainborough).. ..some….

There is a way to support the art and to allow and encourage the art to flourish while being critical. In fact, I find in teaching that self-critique….

The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutel….

Politics right now is in a very dark place, and I think the only place for me is to do what I do - make films, create art, watch it as it evolves. Ri….

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul..

I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the co….

I like Beyoncé because of her tenacity and strength and for giving 1000 percent to her performances, which is a lost art these days. She's cut from t….

The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world..

You begin with the possibilities of the material..

The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority an….

Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is mor….

Being DIY is awesome because you have total control, I never really wanted to get signed. I'm successful because I make art that's meaningful to me t….

I imagine a future where many of us will call ourselves dancers and collaborate to make an art which concerns itself with primary areas of life... fo….

Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live..

The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have neve….

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you..

Confidence and courage are special skills to the art ... Within the four walls of his study, the artist should be modest, work diligently and conscie….

Between 18 and 19 years old [in the 1950s] I came to Paris. I studied art. And that experience really did change my life. I was living hand to mouth.….

I'm a New Yorker. I'm liberal and open-minded. Things don't really shock me. But I was reading the second-act today and thinking that if you're relig….