I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.
There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.
I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.
The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.
We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.
You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.
During my time at high school and university in Kreuzlingen and St. Gallen, I traveled around Europe looking at art, visiting artists, studios, galleries and museums.
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.
Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.
I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.
I understood the craft of photography when done by an artist is art.
This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.
Fashion alone is so far from being the whole story. It seems that with fashion, as with art, things are getting easier in one sense, but at the same time, it is getting harder to be stimulated about things or excite people.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Bond is actually my dream role. Only because it was the film I watched with my grandfathers and father from a very young age, and it would be the only way that I could actually repay them with my art form for what they've done for me.
Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.
I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.
