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I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.
Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.
There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.
The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.
The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies.
Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings.
I was born into a world of art. I always thought that in life, you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep and you draw.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.
We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.
The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.
Thou art my life, my love, my heart, The very eyes of me: And hast command of every part To live and die for thee.
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.
I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.
To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order.
True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.
Art is a platform where self-expression should not be limited. I'm here to inspire. There is no age limit to that.
In the Year 2000 the discovery of extraterrestrial life will create a revolution in science, art, and pornography.
We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.
I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.
Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression.
I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.
Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.
Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.
There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules.
It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.
It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.
Fighting is art and there is nothing more beautiful than the painted canvas of just totally kicking someone's ass.
Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.
In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.
Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.
Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.