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Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.
Fashion is one of the most beautiful forms of art we have. It's a form of art that every person gets to possess and create for themselves.
Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.
It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.
The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok’s wonder The Puppet Show.
These days any self-respecting exhibition of nude photos has to have pornographically explicit images to prove that they are works of art.
Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.
I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
One of the most important things I've learned about acting is that you can't separate how you live your life and how you practice your art.
So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark where thou art not
Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.
Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.
I've had cameras on me since I started the art of fighting and I think that I'm used to having cameras on me in adrenaline-type situations.
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.
Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.
This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal heart.
To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.
Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.
I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.
If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules - to make us whole again.
What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.
How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.
Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.
Through the art of affirmative prayer the limitless resources of the Spirit are at my command. The power of the Infinite is at my disposal.
Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.
ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.
You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)
I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.
In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're flooded with immortality.
I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.
An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.
Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.
As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea of what the market will tolerate.
Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!
Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that.
art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.
I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.
Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.
As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.
You cant just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important.
No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always remain deprived of it.
The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.