I know it's superficial, and you can't measure art, which is supposed to be up to the individual, but I've watched the Oscars since I was a baby with my mother.
I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of who came before you and how the art form has changed or not changed and to learn from the greats.
Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.
Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
I never thought about doing anything other than making art.
Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self.
I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.
I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.
I've done art on my own, and I've also collaborated with other people to make art. And collaborating with other people is always interesting because you end up doing things you probably wouldn't do otherwise.
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.
Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.
Defining art is huge; I feel like it's such a subjective thing. It's more like what's not art. You know what I mean? I think there can be an art in the way people live their lives, and art can be a gift someone gives to somebody.
I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.
I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere with...
The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.
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.
Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.
