"My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me." ― Gus Van Sant Topic(s): Art More From Gus Van Sant "Even when you’re making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it’s part of my dramatic viewpoint. I’m not sure why exactly." "If I’m diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent." "If you don’t have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it’s like getting in a car and not having any gas." More In Art "A picture is a poem without words."― Horace "Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John."― Boris Pasternak "Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There’s likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block – West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues – than in all of Amsterdam’s or Hamburg’s galleries."― Jerry Saltz