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I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.

With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.

Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life.

In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.

Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit.

I grew up in a martial arts gym surrounded by men and boys, and I pretty much call myself a tomboy.

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

Be sure, either that thou art stronger than thine enemy, or that thou hast a swifter pair of heels.

One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.

Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.

Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.

Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.

It's not only music. It's not only art. It's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?

Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.

When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost.

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.

Thou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life.

In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

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