The Art Quotes
Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.
A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.
Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.
If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.
Honesty in art inspires and moves me. I am passionate about creating truthful experiences as much as I love being the spectator to a brilliant body of work.
We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.
There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.
Can you believe that, to say that ours is the only path when the fundamental thing in art is freedom! In art, there are millions of paths—as many paths as there are artists.
Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.
The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.
So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.
The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested in sucking people off. But that will not liberate Black people.
I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.
Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.
Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.
Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.
One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.
Through the art of affirmative prayer the limitless resources of the Spirit are at my command. The power of the Infinite is at my disposal.