I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.
Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.
It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.
Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.
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.
As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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.
I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.
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.
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.
To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.
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.
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
