I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.
I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
The people that are fans of animation are really the people that are keeping the art form of animation alive. If you like cartoons, support the cartoons.
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever.
My feet are not a good part of my body. They definitely have suffered for my art. They're, like, all bunions and blisters.
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted.
The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
