My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.
I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.
I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.
Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.
The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.
Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.
In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support art.
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
Well you know what they say. It’s always raining somewhere.
There’s a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it.
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
Mae West had it right—try anything once, do it again if you like it.
