Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.
I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.
In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.
Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.
It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it's something that I quite enjoy attempting to do.
For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.
I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.
