Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Art must take reality by surprise.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.