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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.
That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.
If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.
I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.
Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.
Someday I'm gonna be famous. Do I have talent, well, no. These days you really don't need it.
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.
The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.
Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.
Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.
All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.
The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.
When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.
There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.
Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.
I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.
if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.
A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.
When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.
Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.
Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that
Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.
I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.
Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.
Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.
Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.
Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one.
I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.