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The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.
As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.
I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.
My goal is to share all my learning, all of my knowledge, so that other generations of martial arts will benefit.
Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion.
There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon.
The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.
There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.
An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.
I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages.
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.
Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.
Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.
When you have a dream, it's going to be a lot of "I can't" people. You need to be the driving force to say I can.
These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.
Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.
The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"
I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.
Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.
The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.
Art has to maintain as large a space for interpretation as possible, and to protect itself from being too narrow.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.
Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.
Media over here, coming to ya like a world premiere. Trench coat and my underwear, let's go with this freak show.
I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.
You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.
No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.
It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.
Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.
If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.
Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves.
Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns.
I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.
The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing
Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.
Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice!
The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.