I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.
One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.
There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.
The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.
I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own.
I mean, the type of art that I enjoy is art that - I enjoy a very broad spectrum, but I especially like art that leaves me a little confused and uncertain as to what just happened.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.
All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
I go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who's who in the martial arts, just to keep myself sharp.
I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I do all kinds of different martial arts.
Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.
You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.
Poor presentation can make great art look terrible. Good presentation can make terrible art look great.
