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The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
The stallion and his mare, unbridled, with arrow-pattern, are worked on. the blue cloth before the door of religion and inspiration.
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.
I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.
Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.
Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.
Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.
By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.
We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.
The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.
A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn't worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts.
Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.
I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit.
You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.
Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.
I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.
Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.
A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.
The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.
It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.
Love would never b a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with a light of faith, water of sincerity, and an art of passion.
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.
I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary.
But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.
I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.
There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table.
I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'
Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.
Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former.
I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.
I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself.
The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.
I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.
Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.
The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.
If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.
If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts.
...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.
Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.
I love art. But I love it because it is the expression of a living philosophy. It's the leftovers. Art is what's left over from life.
As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to cause you to see things differently
All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.