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They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take photos.
Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life.
There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.
We need to regain the art of civil discourse and more practically, I don't think you change anyone's mind by calling them names.
The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist
You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.
Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art - it's a fun group activity.
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.
Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.
In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.
Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.
Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.
Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art.
More and more I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.
Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.
Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.
The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.
The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put into something.
If you think, you are late. If you are late, you use strength. If you use strength you get tired. And if you get tired, you die!
I don't like spiders; setting a trap is the art of low creatures! Who shall ever lay a trap shall be the meanest being on earth.
Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.
If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it'll just always be shallow.
Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science.
Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.
To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.
Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.
Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought.
We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people.
In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.
Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate.
Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
Whether or not anyone could have done it is not what's important. What is important is whether or not anyone would have done it.
You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art.
You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.
Why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked guys a no-no, I bet. Probably because most painters are men.
I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.
No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game