Art Quotes
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.
Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.
The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.
The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.
I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we'll turn the world inside out. And this starts right now.
Awareness of approach to death can be a beautiful thing, a frame into which we can put the work of art that is our life, our personal masterpiece.
The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.
The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly.
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.
Being a leader, it's the art of trying to find the balance, the right times with each individual and what they need at that moment. It requires looking outward as opposed to looking inside.
There were decades I didn't play sober. I thought, Who would want to? But at some point, I decided that if it was important enough to me to keep doing it as art, I should do it with all my tools.
The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.
The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.
The romance of the old West vanished so fast and so few ever did anything with it. Does it make you realize the importance of Art and how the main knowledge of history is through Art alone?
Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis.
But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.
No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.
In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.
All the collaborations that I've done that I'm really proud of with a lot of incredible Canadian artists and beyond, that's when art comes together and becomes something really special.
I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.
At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.
Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.
Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.
Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?
Clothes are functional but that doesn't mean they're not a form of art. They're just another way to express creativity. It could be film, it could garment.
The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness.
The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.
I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.
I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.
