I started painting at 17; I took a class at Brentwood Art Center. I thought about art school - but I'm just so not a school person.
There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.
Art lies by its own artifice.
Art is I; science is we.
Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.
Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.
Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
What I've really liked doing is combining what you might call art criticism or music criticism with something that is happening in real life.
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.
And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.
One of the things about dealing with an artist is that their art is essentially - if they're successful, it's kind of lightning in a bottle. There is no formula for it.
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.
The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating.
I've been trying to make this argument that digital comics and print comics are both art, but there are subtle differences.
The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.
I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.
Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something.
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
Surprise is key in all art.
I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and you know, kind of try to keep political debate out of our work. And to that I say, I'd like you to show me an example of, you know, this so-called apolitical art. I don't think there's any such thing.
A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.
