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Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional.
Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk.
I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin brother and I were in art school together.
Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.
I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings.
All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.
Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.
A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.
I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.
Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.
Artists should not look to the left or the right. Art should be strong and nonconformist - and most importantly, art should always be personal.
I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever.
If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.
As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.
Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go there to find that out.
...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.
As someone who has been asked to ask David Lynch what his movies mean for 25 years, I'm very careful about asking artists what their art means.
If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.
Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.
Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.
I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass my own children later.
For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic.
One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.
Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea.
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.
So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.
The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.
I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.
Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
Leadership is the art of serving God by helping His people become more like His Son through the indefatigable pursuit of His vision and values.
The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.