Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.
You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally.
Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.
The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.
Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
Each moment calls for a different stylistic essence and a different sense of impact, and mastery of this balance is an art form - a very learnable art form.
You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.
Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
I always said God was against art and I still believe it.
I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.
Film is a collaborative art form. If you're not being collaborative, you probably shouldn't be working in film. You don't do it on your own. People who understand that, cultivate that, get the best results.
Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
Culture - art, music, literature - is the long game, because it's the way to change people's ideas in a more personal way.
The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.
I thought conceptual art was a joke.
I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
None of the established museums were treating cartoons seriously. It was considered a lesser art or no art at all, just a way to sell newspapers. Even the syndicates who were dedicated to the cartoons were throwing them out, figuring they had no value after they were printed.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
All good art, to me, is uncertainty.
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.
When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.
The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on.
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, you see.
The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
The course of Nature is the art of God.
Art is born of humiliation.
Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.
