I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out.
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
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.
Radio is the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio.
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.
One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is equally conceivable that the exchange would be useful for the beholders of art, for people who enjoy a...
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.
There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.
Not just art for art's sake, but I want to have films out there that will provoke authentic, holistic conversations about the human condition. And not provide the easy answers, but put it out there.
All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.
