The Art Quotes
Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.
I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.
Good art is born from knowing yourself deeply: Your art cannot hide how much you have discovered about yourself.
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.
All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.
In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact.
Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.
I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)
Since karate is a martial art, you must practice with the utmost seriousness from the very beginning.
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops
Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.
The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.
The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.
The only person who is hurt by jealousy is you... Eliminate that word from your life... it may not make you unsuccessful selling your art, but it will destroy your happiness.
Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
It's not only music. It's not only art. It's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong.
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect.
If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the art than that of the artist.
One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.
Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.
In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.
I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
