I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old.
The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.
Gardening always has been an art, essentially.
Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
I feel like people want to be surprised when they get out of the movies. They want something thrown at them they didn't expect. They want stuff that reminds them of the feelings that you get when you're watching art house movies but with the fun of l...
The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul.
I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any art form, you can misuse it.
The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.
Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often, the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.
I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.
A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.
Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.
More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.
In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.
I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.
