Art Quotes
“I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.”
“Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.”
-- Camille Paglia
“Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.”
-- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.”
-- Simone Weil
“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.”
-- Saint Augustine