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An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.
Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.
Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.
Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.
Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.
Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.
I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.
Ive been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started taking karate and mixed martial arts.
All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.
I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.
My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.
The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.
I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.
You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.
No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.
I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages.
The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.
The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.
Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity.
Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.
People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.
You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.
You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.
President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.
Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.
Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.
The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher.
All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.
Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.
Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.
I am close friends with Marina Abamovich, so I love strong, very aggressive political art. She is like a mom who wants to adopt me.
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.
I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.
A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!
Art and love survive war, revolution and death. Things continue. What we put into the earth while we are alive continues beyond us.
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger, do not fight.
I didn't really understand fashion until I started going to Paris and seeing the ateliers and how hard these people work. It's art.
Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.
The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.