I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end up doing are my real choices. I do the best things I'm offered. Jacqueline Bisset artchoicedress Change image and share on social
The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on. Gus Van Sant artartistcommunity share on social
The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are. David Dinkins artcommunicationcountry Change image and share on social
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly. Tom Clancy artbookform Change image and share on social
I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them. Conrad Veidt artdebtforget Change image and share on social
Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music. Conor Oberst artbasicallycommunication share on social
Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time. Junot Diaz artfundamentallylong Change image and share on social
The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. John Desmond Bernal abandonmentartbegin share on social
I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art. Steven Rodney McQueen artfilmguy Change image and share on social
At art college, I started to do music and then painting and drawing - and that would have been my ideal life, to be an artist and be paid for it, to be able to create stuff. I realized it was difficult, but I don't know if I had the application for it. Sean Bean applicationartartist share on social
