Quotes About Art

Anything that brings people to see Shakespeare is fine by me. He's the great humanist.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is... It's almost more my humanitarian work than art.

There is a lot of talk in the academy about the death of the humanities. Based on my readers' response and their interest in history and literature and art, the death of the humanities has been grossly overstated.

I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff like that. I think I had to take Art History, which I failed a few times.

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.

That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.

If you're drawing humans, it can be detrimental to be too naturalistic, which is like animating little corpses.

People are very harsh critics of animated humans.

I was the first person in my family who was ever interested in dance, or fine art of any kind for that matter - I came from a very humble beginning in San Pedro, California.

Writing is so humbling; there's no confidence involved.

To write is a humiliation.

America is learning the art of humility. That's a good thing for the rest of the world.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

I can't not put humor in a book.

If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.

I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.

When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.

Humour is ahead of everything creatively. I think if things aren't humorous, they are just crap.

A long time ago, you couldn't say what you mean in blues. You had to disguise it, and that's where the double entendres and humour comes from and that's where we come from.

I don't care more about '13' because it's in the Olivier than I did about 'Cock' in a 100-seat studio. They both matter because it's still a person sat there watching your play. And the play has to be good enough - because there are a hundred other writers out there who deserve to have their play on instead.

For all the hundreds of scripts that are out there, there's not that many that are amazing.

When people slave over those scripts and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for them, they don't usually want you to add farts.

Seeing our kids' beautiful, colorful art hung on the wall brightens my heart and our home.

You are perfectly justified in scoffing at the outrageous transparency of it if I tell you that his wife said that he was so pale that he looked as if he had seen a ghost, but that is, indeed, what she said. Art cannot rescue anybody from anything.