“At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.”
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“What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.”
“What is art? Prostitution.”
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
“Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.”
“I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.”
“Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.”
“The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.”
“For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.”
“Resolve and thou art free.”
“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”
“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
“I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.”
“Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.”
“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.”
“I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.”
“I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.”
“It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.”
“After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.”
“It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.”
“Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.”
“Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.”
“To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.”
“Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.”