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For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.
Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.
I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.
Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.
How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?
Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.
No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.
Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.
Enemies of art are the opposite of the Sun; they emit darkness instead of light!
In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.
Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider.
My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.
Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.
I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.
The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.
The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world.
Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.
I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate ART.
My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.
Don’t just stand there, let’s get to it, Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it...
Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.
The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned.
Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
If you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live?
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it.
Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.
I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.
In art, vitality is the chaotic initial state; beauty is the cosmic final state.
If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
It's not all about acting. It's about giving an art of entertainment to humanity.
I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.