we may say that History develops, Art stands still
What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting - a zoo, not a natural habitat.
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
Art cannot save anybody from anything.
Where does contagion end and art begin?
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.
