Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

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.