I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of th...
Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.
I can remember the moment when I suddenly felt that the camera was a living partner. I suddenly felt this is art, and the camera is a co-operative living person. After that I was extremely happy to act in films.
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
Art, that great undogmatized church.
Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.
What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machine...
In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.
Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt do, the most essential, even spiritual, ideas of their art.
I don't think neurobiology is going to replace aesthetics or art history. It's a parallel discipline that adds a new dimension. I always compare it to Leonardo da Vinci looking at the structure of the human body, and you learn more about how the join...
One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is equally conceivable that the exchange would be useful for the beholders of art, for people who enjoy a...
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
