Good acting is consistency of performance.
I'm not a natural born performer.
If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.
Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.
Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.
For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.
Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.
Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.
There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.
I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
