Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.
To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
Art will never be able to exist without nature.
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
