The Art Quotes
A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts.
I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.
Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.
The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.
The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.
A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.
The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.
Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.
An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.
My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
![The Art Quotes: "The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art."](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations442/The-species-and-the-genus-are-always-442637.jpg)
The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.
One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. This is where creativity begins.
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.
Folk parapsychology, an art and science designed to enable people to make effective use of their psychic talents
My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.
I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.
It is because everything must come to an end that everything is so beautiful.
What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
Train hard, get good coaching and don't forget that its mixed martial arts. Don't get tied into one style of fighting and focus on multiple disciplines.
The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami.
Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.
Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.
When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.
People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived.
So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.
Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.
