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Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.
I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.
Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.
Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.
The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.
Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ass because you think it's a trend.
One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance
Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support art.
Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.
If you do not master the art of self discipline- you will succumb to the emotions and reality of regret.
The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.
I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.
I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.
I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.
Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
I live art, I respect people, and I've found what I want to do in life - I've found what makes me happy.
Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.
Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.
I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it.
Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.
To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).
He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.
I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.
Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.
Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.
The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.
I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.
Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going.
If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.
I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.
We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.
I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.