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It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.
There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.
There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.
Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.
You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.
What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.
Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes… We’re all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.
I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.
I was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel strong.
Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!
A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality.
We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.
Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.
It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.
Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It’s also the root of a lot of bad art.
Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.
I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
In the ’70s it was skateboards, in the ’80s it was drugs, in the ’90s it was art, and now it’s my family.
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
Europeans invented art for the last 300 years, and the Americans kind of killed it with a big, huge rock.
The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.
People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.
When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text.
I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.
For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.
I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.
I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.
I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri... My life began at this point.
Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.
I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.
Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.