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All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.
I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.
I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.
Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life.
The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.
I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.
The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.
When I was an art student in the early 60′s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.
Wanting an honest opinion about my art from someone whose opinion I respect makes me feel vulnerable. It's a great space to be in.
Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.
The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end, though.
And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.
Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.
If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
There's an art to playing live. It's a great feeling. It's indescribable. It's what I love. I wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy it.
I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.
Russia can offer state-of-the-art technology, .. For example, we can help other countries launch space devices such as satellites.
The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.
The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated
To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.
The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.
If we fight for money, I'll stop hitting you when you ask me to. If we fight for honor, I'll stop hitting you when I feel like it.
Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.
In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.
I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.
The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.
I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard, I could do that."
Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.
Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.
I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.
I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.
All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.