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I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.
That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is.
Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.
I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.
Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.
If you are good at in the art of finding consolation, it means that you have the best medicine after the disasters.
But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.
From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments.
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.
There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.
Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.
I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.
Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.
I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.
[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
I think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch people.
I put everything I can into a record. That's what art is for. I take a risk every time I do one with my whole being.
[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.
Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.
Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.
I definitely think that fashion is a form of art and love that people can express themselves through what they wear.
Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
If wrestling can be considered an art form, then [Ric Flair] is using oils, and the many others merely water colors.
paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides.
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!
Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.
Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . .
Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory.