The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human.
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be exclud...
I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have for martial arts, so when I was 18 years old, I started studying performing arts with the eye of getting into the film industry and went to drama school a...
There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.
I do write about men now and then, but I mostly write about women because that's the work I like best. When I became a feminist, I realized that somebody had to write all about this women's art that was out there ignored, and it was going to be me. A...
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.
I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned female figures are used to artistic advantage in tableaux. They do not move.
Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do, and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do.
But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.
The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.
