The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.
I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own.
I mean, the type of art that I enjoy is art that - I enjoy a very broad spectrum, but I especially like art that leaves me a little confused and uncertain as to what just happened.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.
All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
I go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who's who in the martial arts, just to keep myself sharp.
I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I do all kinds of different martial arts.
Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.
You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.
Poor presentation can make great art look terrible. Good presentation can make terrible art look great.
Ghost Boy: T'ain't all bad, miss. Thou art alive. Thou art still liviing.
Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.
