Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.
There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.
Some couples could not work together but we enjoy working on our projects and building our art business.
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
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.
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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.
A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
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.
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.