I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.
Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.
Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.
Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing.
It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and doing commercials. And I did some of the very first rock videos.
The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.
The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and ...
I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.
When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.
All good art is an indiscretion.
Filmmaking can be a fine art.
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
