The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.
I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.
I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.
At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them.
I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.
To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.
I don't really consider myself a model, to be honest. I respect designers; I think it's another art, you know.
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.
Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.
I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.
Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
