The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country. Ad Reinhardt
The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art. Francis Ford Coppola
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art. Bliss Carman
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death. Jacques Lipchitz
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words. Laurie Anderson
It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy. Jonny Greenwood
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it. Laurie Anderson
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast. Robert Morgan
Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years. Xander Berkeley
There are so many people who want to be the next person on 'Home and Away,' or they just want to be on the cover of a magazine, and they don't really understand the craft. They're not interested in theatre, they're not interested in the art. Gillian Alexy