John Gourley Quotes
There's no making art for art's sake. You've got to make the best art you can.
Quotes to Explore
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rather than known for this doll-like image I had when I was a child.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.
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The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.
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There's no making art for art's sake. You've got to make the best art you can.
