Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.
I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.
I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.
Actors have no color. That's the art form.
Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that.
You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand.
The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
When I started writing about art, there were no curators.
There is no must in art because art is free.
