To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.
I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.
Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.
Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.
