Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered?
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It’s basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.
Art is man’s nature; nature is God’s art.
Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
Sridevi is the most beautiful and the most sensuous woman God ever created, and I think He creates such exquisite pieces of art like her only once in a thousand years.
Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
Shadows sometimes people don’t see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
When you go to an art museum, the thing you’re least likely to encounter is a picture of a black person. When it comes to ideas about art and about beauty, the black figure is absent.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.
Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.
There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it’s a painting, and if you can walk around it it’s a sculpture.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.
My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism.
The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone… means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.
I hope for all of us that the future brings us towards evolving our consciousness. To delving deeper into our true power. To exploring more the key to sustaining our planet and our art for the better of all living things.
