I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.
I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.
I'm interested in all kinds of art. I draw and paint and don't know how to play the banjo, but I do play the banjo.
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.
I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.
I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.
I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.
Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.
It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on.
I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.
In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.
I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want it to take over my acting.
I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.
