Nobody knows I sing. Even though I've done Broadway musicals. I would only pick it over acting because it's such a pure form of emotional expression.
We should work for simple, good, undecorated things.
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be united with another human is so fundamental a part of our nature that our judgement of what is known as 'pure form' is inevitably influenced by it, and one of the difficulties of the nude as a subject for art is that these instincts cannot be hidden.
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form.
So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.
The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn't refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else.
I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.
When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
Beauty is not caused. It is.
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.
Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?
Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]
A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.
The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.
When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.
The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.
Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.
Since we made Shrek in the digital format, you actually can see it in its purest form digitally.
The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.
I have no fondness for pure form at all.
