I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth wisdom is dying out.

But theater because of its nature both text images multimedia effects has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s) I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

People of art should never get married and have children because it's a selfish experience.

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves they run about loose hungering for employment and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations which have all to do with making things already made is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately even though there's pressure to.

History has remembered the kings and warriors because they destroyed art has remembered the people because they created.

Man is unique not because he does science and his is unique not because he does art but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.