Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them.
My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.
We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end up doing are my real choices. I do the best things I'm offered.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of opposites and together they are greater than either one could ever be.
I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile...
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about ...
But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.
I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's ...
I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.
I think I've been able to build up a wide range of styles in storytelling, using comics in different ways from project to project. I think my art has become more accomplished, although I try to keep it from becoming slick or superficial.
