The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me.

Art is 110 percent sweat.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.