Art Quotes
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I want the respect of intelligent men but I will choose for myself the intelligent. I love art but I decide for myself what is art. I adore beauty but only my own soul shall tell me what is beauty. I worship God but I define and describe God for myself. I am an individual. The pleasure of my own heart shall be first to inform me when I have done good work.
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The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
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Art doesn't always mirror life and life's hard sometimes.
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I don’t consider my own clothing to be outrageous... The truth is that people just don’t have the same references that I do. To me it’s very beautiful and it’s art, and to them it’s outrageous and crazy.
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The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
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Different critics go to different lengths to disagree with that sentiment, but ultimately, they're the person experiencing this art, and whatever judgment or taste they use is internal, and says more about them than about the record they're writing about.
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When I was still doing indie, it was just purely art. I don't think about how much I will get paid or how much the movie will earn.
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Never judge a work of art by its defects.
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What is called posterity is the posterity of the work of art.
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Most conservatives know better than to promote the state funding of art. The result of such funding is the mess that modern art has become. Atonal music is to music what subsidized art is to art. ...The fact that cacophony has reigned almost supreme since 1900 is a testimony to Mises' original observation. Atonal music is to music what socialism is to economics: planned chaos.
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The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it also depends on interpretation. It's very similar to how you grow a master plan: it's an objective document, but at the same time it is a lyrical document which allows through interpretation to become a harmonious work of art.
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People like Dick Gregory, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte and Nina Simone show me what the definition of an artist is - it isn't just to make art but to speak truth to what's happening, speak beauty into the world, speak love into the world and also... get involved.
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I have a lot of good role models in my family for things off the court - like my older sister, who's a lawyer. I don't like writing papers, but she's helped me a lot. It's nice to have an art and business background because they tie together perfectly.
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I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.
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There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.
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I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
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In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.
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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.
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Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
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We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.
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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
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To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
