Kelly Wearstler Quotes

I need art around me always.

Kelly Wearstler

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• I'm 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.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Art

• I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Writing
  • Art
  • College

• Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Art
  • Help
  • Society

• Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • World
  • Art
  • Soul

• That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Water
  • Evil
  • Like

• Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Me
  • Start

• As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Trying
  • Art
  • High

• I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • School
  • Art
  • College

• A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Art
  • Political
  • Opinion

• I want to fight the best guy. I always want to fight the best guy.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Best

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Light
  • Simplicity

• I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Different
  • Live

• An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Music
  • Art
  • Words

• If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Art
  • Want
  • Free

• I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Art
  • Really
  • Get

• Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Art
  • Control
  • Cooking

• Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and that can make a crucial difference to lots of writers.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Writing
  • Art

• When I'm writing the text for a book like 'Little White Rabbit,' I read it aloud, alone, in my studio, again and again and again - because the rhythm has to be exactly right. After I get my manuscript to the point where I think it is perfect, I begin to think about what I want the art to look like.

  

  Kevin Henkes
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Book

• The definition of public art to me means everything and means nothing because for me, all art is public. Art has to be public by definition and in a way It has to be accessible to any audience not just a work in a museum or an art gallery.

  

  Emi Fontana
  • Art
  • Public
  • Definition

• I believe you have to live the songs.

  

  Tammy Wynette
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Songs

• I would say, and this sounds like a rather immodest thing to say, but the truth is it's probably the most amazing thing of all, it's pretty much exactly what I thought we were going to make, what I hoped we'd make.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Amazing
  • Sound

• I need art around me always.

  

  Kelly Wearstler
  • Art