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When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.
I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world
It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.
The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.
Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.
You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.
We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.
All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder.
Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.
Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.
"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.
In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.
If I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it.
Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.
Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.
It's hard to tell what's true compassion, when it's dressed up in hair and nails and fashion.
I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history
There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you.
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.
I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.
Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.
We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.
The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.
Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.
Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.
Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.
Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
As I grew older, I developed a very innate passion for art. I was actually pretty good at it.
Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.
Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.
I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.
The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.