Ansel Adams Quotes
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
Quotes to Explore
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.
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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
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It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.
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First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in - I would have been in high school - 2005 or something.
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I had the feeling that there was a dimension of reality that had not been dealt with in art: the dimension of ugliness.
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Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
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In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.
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My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.
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Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
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The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.
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I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.
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I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country.
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I think we all want to find the love of our life and live our fantasies. What art student hasn't used his art to get girls? What journalists or actors haven't used their craft as well? It's a very human instinct to pursue.
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The best art is realized when you can share the experience of making of it and not just the presentation of it, so that the audience is part of the creation and not just part of the consumption. Then it becomes much more full-bodied and robust.
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For me, I see filmmaking as art.
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Religion is the supreme art of humanity.
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Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.
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Does the interiorization of media such as letters alter the ratio among our senses and change mental processes? (p. 28)
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It's really hard to find materials. Also, prices of metal have gone completely through the roof, insanely expensive. And if you go to a dictionary and look up starving artist, you'll see my picture.
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One gloomy and pessimistic writer with a powerful style affects a whole generation of writers, who in turn affect almost every educated person in the country.
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
