The Art Quotes
Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times...
A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.
The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.
Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.
When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!
That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.
I've been arrested a few times, but I've never been in real trouble. Because what I do is art and even if it is illegal, Art is a universal activity, and artists are generally respected.
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good.
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.
The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.
If you're going to perform inception, you need imagination. You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject's mind. Subtle art.
The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.
There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.
Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.
I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.
The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.
The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.
Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the arts.
I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.
One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.
It is my dearest wish to help young artists of our country....and to assist them in establishing themselves in the art world.
The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light.
I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the performer, but the one looking at it.
First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.
At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.
I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn't know what the thing was. It's the honor what I loved.
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
Art is a place for children to learn to trust their ideas, themselves, and to explore what is possible.
The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.
Over the years I have learned that creating art has made me happy. I used to be a lawyer and I'm much happier being an artist.
Im always trying to find connections between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
