I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's too obtuse or esoteric.
I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.
Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it.
Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.
My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
I love art more than anything in the world except for my family.
I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.
I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.
I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.
The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.
And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and doing commercials. And I did some of the very first rock videos.
I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
