A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
Art is the objectification of feeling.
The novelist has a responsibility to adhere to the facts as closely as possible, and if they are inconvenient, that's where the art comes in. You must work with intractable facts and find the dramatic shape inside them.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.
There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.
Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.
Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there's a lot of stuff that's left over from when there were very wealthy people - the Art Museum and a world class symphony that's still world class.
I'd like to see the comics' style expanded. I'd like to see artists synthesize traditional comics arts style with fine-arts styles or whatever. I like to see innovation. I don't like it when an art form becomes stagnant.
I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was a jazz critic, and I was always thinking, theorizing about what makes great art or what's important in art.
It dawned on me that comics were not an intrinsically limited medium. There was a tremendous amount of things you could do in comics that you couldn't do in other art forms - but no one was doing it. I figured if I'd make a try at it, I'd at least be...
At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them.
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.
As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
