One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.
Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be seen as a form of public art.
Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.
Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.
I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.
But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.
When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.
Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
Each moment calls for a different stylistic essence and a different sense of impact, and mastery of this balance is an art form - a very learnable art form.
The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.
The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.
Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.
No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.
