The Art Quotes
An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
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.
With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.
Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.
Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.
It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
We love to be hurt and we love to have our unhealing wounds opened and reopened again: we sit staring in the mirror of art, fascinated by our own deformities.
Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.
Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.
One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.
Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.
Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate.
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.
Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.
The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go.
Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age.
That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.
Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.
Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.
Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.
Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.
Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.
My code of life and my personal bushido is honour, respect, loyalty, courage and surrender.
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.