A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.
In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.
Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.
It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it's something that I quite enjoy attempting to do.
For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.
I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.
The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.
I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.
I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in 'The Summer without Men.' I also write essays about visual art.
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.
