I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.
In school, some of my favorite subjects... I mean, art was my favorite subject. I loved art! I used to go during lunch time to the art room and paint or draw or something.
I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.
I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.
I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.
One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.
There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.
The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.
I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own.
