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I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.
And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality.
Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.
Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art.
The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great.
I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.
There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.
I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.
It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it’s going to do it visually or physically, I’ll take either way.
I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well.
Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.
The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.
I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.
All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.
Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.
The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.
To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.
My natural orientation has never been among a community of writers, really. For some reason my social world has always been in the art world.
I think that, like any art, fashion is about expression. It allows you to express yourself and your identity through what you choose to wear.
My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.
I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.
Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.
A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Living life, I mean, my two stepsons, my husband, I think every day - today interaction inspires me - as far as music goes - inspires my art.
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.
An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.
I went to art school, and that's how I got the internship, and then I started a band. But I always missed comics, I always wanted to do them.
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.
While I believe there is certainly a phenomenon of timelessness in art, the people writing today can comment on today in an exclusive manner.
Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win
I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven't done anything for a long time, I always start small, on paper.
I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.
If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest the promise of the future.
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.
A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.
No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't
For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.
Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.