But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.
Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.
Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.
As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.
I've been at this for a while, and to a very real extent, you look at cover art with the same sort of expectation you have for playing slot machines in Vegas. That is to say, you hope to break even and promise yourself not to flinch when all you get is the same sort of mix of fruit that you get in a cup of generic fruit cocktail.
I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best.
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
Cinema is an art form.
You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is.
In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished.
New York's various undergrounds can make for a disciplined apprenticeship, and Gaga takes pride in her earliest fan base of art, fashion and music students.
There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.
Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
I believe that art is a tool and that, like all tools, it has functions. I also think it is important to know what the tool is for so that we can better know how and when to use it.
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
At first, I didn't want to do unicorns. The artist in me said no. Then I thought, 'Wait a minute: this is commercial art. Let's do what's going to sell.'
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
My trade and art is to live.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.
