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.
I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.
I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.
I don't believe in creating exclusionary art.
We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.
Palin, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others have made an art form of convincing far too many Americans to suspend their disbelief, and they have severely damaged the ability of our country to have serious discussions about serious challenges.
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.
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.
I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.
Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.
If it's good art, it's good.
One of the things I've been most excited by is U.S. television drama. For my money, it's some of the greatest narrative art of our time. Each series is like a 19th-century Russian novel: you need to do a lot of work in the first few episodes, just as...
I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. 'M.A.S.H.' comes to mind. So does 'The Iliad.'
Art must not serve might.
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
