In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.
If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?
With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami.
Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.
At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.
Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.
I've had cameras on me since I started the art of fighting and I think that I'm used to having cameras on me in adrenaline-type situations.
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
