The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.
Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are.
I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.
Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.
If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.
The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.
More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.
The term 'celebrity memoir' has gotten such a bad name now, but there used to be a little bit of an art form to it.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.
