There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

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.

So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don't do that.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.