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Everybody has fear. The difference is that the coward does not control fear and the brave... gets over it.
Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.
Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence.
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.
Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.
It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
I look at art all the time. I go to the museums and galleries every week. That really is like food for me.
He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.
I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.
I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.
What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.
Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.
Sharing information, art, music, and everything on the internet now has become a part of everyone's lives.
The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.
But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.
Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.
The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.
I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.
That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.
In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.
This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.
The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.
Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.
I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.
If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.
I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.
Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.
Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.
Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.
Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.
Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.
Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.
Whatever the Left touches-- the arts; the economy; health care; the soul; religion-- it destroys or damages
All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.
History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.
As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.
It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.