Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
Something happened when I was in elementary school. A Disney artist named Bruce McIntyre retired, and he had done drawings for 'Pinocchio' and 'Snow White' that was just classic stuff. He moved to the town I grew up in, Carlsbad, and he became a part...
'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it...
Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.
Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.
Stage performing is a dying art form.
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.
Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part!
I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.
There's an audience for all kinds of great art.
I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.
Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.
