The Art Quotes
I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.
Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.
For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.
The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.
Jiu Jitsu at the end of the day, is the art of expressing yourself honestly. Everytime you put on a Gi, you can't lie.
If you think, you are late. If you are late, you use strength. If you use strength you get tired. And if you get tired, you die!
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.
The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.
She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet away.
I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.
I don’t create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art.
An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.
In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.
I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.
