Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.
I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.'
After art college, I got a job as a medical illustrator, and I was pretty good. I had to imagine what was going on in the operations because the photographs just showed a mess.
From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I discovered Salvador Dali, and it was like finding something I already knew.
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.
It's been said that horror films are experimental forms of art, and I agree. As an actress, you're put in positions and have to experience emotions that are way beyond reality, whether fighting in a post-apocalyptic world or being possessed by the De...
I want that every piece of art be honest, never mind what it is about.
If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.
For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.
I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.
When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
