My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.
Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.
I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.
Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.
The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.
Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.
Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.
It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.
I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.
I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.
Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.
If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.
Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of diplomacy is the art of strategic lying.
