What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.

Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.