And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
People go into a gallery, and they're afraid to express their opinions about art. No one's afraid to say, 'Keanu Reeves was bad in that movie.' We see so many films that we can tell who's faking it. But with art, we can't always tell.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.
Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others' houses and going to the library to do art and stuff. It's almost like our own little school - a really little school.
Is art influential? It can be - 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' rallied abolitionists, and 'The Jungle' provoked the demand for a safer food industry.
When you create art, the world has to wait.
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a write...
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.
A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image.
When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.
There have been times when I'm writing about things that are personally embarrassing. Like any human being, sometimes I can't help but wonder - 'What are the people I know going to think about this?' So I have to remind myself that all is permissible...
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
