I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.
The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.
Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.
Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde - making films, music, performance art and visual art that continues to push the envelope, inspire and empower.
My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.
The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.
Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things.
I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles of populism and social consciousness I aspire to in my own practice.
Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts.
People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.
The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the be...
All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.
A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.
What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.
You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously.
