A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.
As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.
Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.
I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure way of touching that deeper reality beneath our life.
I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
Games can be art, and they can be significant and all the glorified things that we want them to be. But if you ask a kid if their toys are important, they'll say 'yes,' and 'Please don't take them away.'
Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
We are all born artists. If you have kids, you know what I mean. Almost everything kids do is art. They draw with crayons on the wall.
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doin...
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.
I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping is an art that you have to practice and master, so I worked at it for a long time.
I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
