No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.
All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.
I've loved art for more than 30 years.
Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.
I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.
I remember going through school and doing art, which was the only thing that I actually found fulfilling, and I couldn't really figure out why. Then I got into college and started messing around with photography, and I realised that it was about gett...
But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.
Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.
To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.
It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, y...
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.