For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.
I went to film school, and I came in when video art was king, weird stuff was king, and there, you don't have a script as your bible.
For some reason, being on time in this industry can be a lost art form, especially for actors! It's important to remember that other people are always waiting for you on set, and it's really unfair to make them wait.
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.
Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.
Art helped give me confidence.
Art removes boundaries and makes the world brighter. It is the common language for people all over the world. But politics are the opposite completely. Politicians, their very meaning is based on the lines they draw.
Monk's music is often defined as enigmatic, eccentric and humorous - as if it had little to do with the pain he may have endured to create his art. But I believe Monk routinely shared his history with his audience, no matter how unpalatable that history was, and it is for that very reason that his music connects with people around the globe.
I think all art - even one as lowly as making jokes about celebrities - is there to make a connection.
I've lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once 'created,' or produced, the art of fiction.
I'm a happy member of the church. I'm proud of it and defend it. It makes me bold and gives me confidence. I feel I know the answer to life - that it's all about. If you're not searching for the answer to life, you have more time to make art. It's a rock for me upon which I can tap dance.
I loved my time doing 'Private Practice' in Los Angeles, and I was quite challenged and excited to learn about the art of television, but I missed being on the stage.
Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.
What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.
I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.
Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house. Changing the way you walk home everyday fills life with surprises.
My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.
I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
The most interesting stuff happens when an authoritarian government removes itself a little and gives this margin of freedom. And then art is grabbed with both hands.
I wanted to open the dialogue about race in ballet and bring more people in. It's just beautiful to see the interest that has exploded for such an incredible art form that I will forever be grateful to!
I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.
I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.
Back in third grade, they used to say, 'Take whatever talent you have and think of something you can do with it.' I liked to draw, but what could I do with it? Maybe I could be an art dealer - nah, can't see myself doing that. Maybe I could do commercial arts?
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.
The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.
Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.
What I'd tell any kid in high school is, 'Take business classes.' I don't care what else you're gonna do; if you're gonna do art or anything, take business classes. You can say, 'Well, I don't want to get commercial,' but if you do anything to make any money, you're doing something commercial.
When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.
I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art.
I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.
We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.
I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.
