Art Quotes
When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening right then and there: the exchange, the art, the communication. Performance is in the moment.
To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.
As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.
Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .
If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.
Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here is a little more chaotic.
Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my sense of them.
Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.
A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.
The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.
The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'
Ninja Turtles taught me how to meditate. They got me into martial arts. They helped make me who I am today.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!
In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.
The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.
The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.