I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Art is science made clear.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.

Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.