With manga, in my art style, I don't do much in the way of techniques to create depth. But even though I don't do depth techniques through my art, I am conscious of depth itself.
I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.
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 think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future.
For somebody like Kanye, fame is the fullest realisation of his art in a way. It's like an Andy Warhol dream or something. He's able to marshal all of these different artforms and media into his story, in this very layered, idiosyncratic way.
If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
It's been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing about writing. This may be true, there are similarities - both the verbal and the visual represent the thing or the concept.
The art of it is, the more we can bring complex game mechanics to a mass market, the more engaging the games will be. But at the same time, we have to simplify everything: the mass market has a lower attention span; they're not seeking that experience from the outset.
That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think.
Masterful politicians and effective agents of change tend to succeed by singling out and making salient some aspect of a nation's self-understanding, sparking a sense of recognition - and ultimately moving voters in their favor. Obama made it into an art form.
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
