Art is a sense of magic.
Directing is a tremendous art.
All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.
A storyteller who provided us with such a profusion of details would rapidly grow maddening. Unfortunately, life itself often subscribes to this mode of storytelling, wearing us out with repetition, misleading emphases and inconsequential plot lines....
In his 1923 review of James Joyce Ulysses, T. S. Eliot focused on one of his generation's recurrent anxieties--the idea that art might be impossible in the twentieth century. The reasons that art seemed impossible are many and complex, but they were ...
The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed. Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can. The job might be dif...
A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. If my drawing, on the other hand, is so far from being a work of art that it needs THIS IS A HORSE written under it, what can it matter that neither you nor...
I wouldn’t say “art” as much as “virtue,” in the ancient Greek sense of “andreia” – manly action – or “arete,” excellence. In my experience, Resistance kicks in any time we try to move ourselves from a lower plane to a higher. I...
For me, art in our time is strongest when it is aware of science, includes science, is inspired by science, or is about science. On the linguistic level, the new words coined by scientists to describe their new discoveries form a giant growing lexico...
Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.
I was a big history buff as a teenager.
I'm a big stupid history nerd.
Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position in American history for 200 years.
In France, history is paralyzing.
Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture.
In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.
'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot.
I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
