Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.
My parents were always supportive of me in terms of expressing myself artistically. Art, musical instruments, singing - whatever I did, they were just really supportive.
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.
One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it.
It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.
Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.
Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.
I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.'
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.
If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.
Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.
In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.
