In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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?
Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.
I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work.
I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
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.
Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.
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.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
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.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.
The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.
We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.
Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.
