Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.
There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.
I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.
Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.
I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it.
The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action.
Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues.
Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.
If you imagine yourself as a craftsman at ILM, you spend your days tumbling buses and animating shards of glass. You're doing a lot of visual effects work.
I do write about men now and then, but I mostly write about women because that's the work I like best. When I became a feminist, I realized that somebody had to write all about this women's art that was out there ignored, and it was going to be me. A...
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.
I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned female figures are used to artistic advantage in tableaux. They do not move.
Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do, and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do.
The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.