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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.
The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do the same for others.
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.
The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
Good art is born from knowing yourself deeply: Your art cannot hide how much you have discovered about yourself.
There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.
Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.
Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.
We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?
Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.
At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.
I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.
I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school.
Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.
The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.
Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.
When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways.
When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.
The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.
Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.
I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand.
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.
A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.
Your cameras can't control the minds of those who know, that you'll even sell your soul just to get a story sold.
I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.