The Art Quotes

'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.

When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.

I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

When we separate music from life we get art.

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.

I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

I'm learning with my mom how to cook more Spanish food. I'm trying to make a good paella, but that's a real art.

Gujarat is truly vibrant. Be it handicrafts, folk music, art, costumes or food - the state offers the best of everything.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.

I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.

Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.

To me, my brand is luxury, it's art, it's women, it's raw, it's urban.

Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

I wouldn't want to do an average fashion line. I'd want it to be an amazing piece of art.

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.

I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing.

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.

Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend.

After art college, I got a job as a medical illustrator, and I was pretty good. I had to imagine what was going on in the operations because the photographs just showed a mess.

Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netter's art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.

I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life.