The Art Quotes
In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.
The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight.
Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.
Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.
Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.
The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.
The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.
I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire
The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.
I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art.
A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.
I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.
I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.
The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.
Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.
Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
Art is not always meant to be decorative or soothing, in fact, it can create uncomfortable conversations and stimulate uncomfortable emotions.
All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.
Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.
Jesus, Thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love Thou art; Visit us with Thy salvation, enter every trembling heart.
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.
Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.
My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.
