There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
If you're an artist, it's OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the film, and the film becomes you; you breathe it.
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
I'm starting to get a following on Twitter. That's a really awesome power to have. It gives me the opportunity to make any kind of art I want.
I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.
Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.
What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.
Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.
I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers.
In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.
If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?
With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami.
Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
