Art Quotes
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Contemporary art and manga - what is the same about them? Nothing, right? The manga industry has a lot of talented people, but contemporary art works on more of a solitary model. No one embarks on collaboration in contemporary art in order to make money. But in the manga world, everyone is invested in collaboration. The most important point is that the manga industry constantly encourages new creations and creators.
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Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.
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Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
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I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.
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Of course, museums and galleries and art spaces will continue to ground the art world. But certainly the public - as well as artists - also benefit when art is encountered in other everyday situations.
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The subjectivization of the universal in art brings the universal downward on one hand, while on the other it helps raise the individual toward the universal.
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I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.
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I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.
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The ability... to experiment with imaginary situations, gives man a freedom... the pleasure in trying out and exploring imaginary situations. A child's play is concerned with this pleasure; and so is much of art, and much of science... Pure science... is a form of play, in this sense.
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I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.
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Nude nail polish wins hands down over intricate nail art.
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I think comedy is the hardest art form there is.
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We wanted to make a wearable of tomorrow that is designed for everyone. I can proudly say Galaxy Gear is tomorrow's state of the art.
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The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.
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I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.
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I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.
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I think there is a real art to walkabouts.
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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.
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Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.
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I always tell people this when they're looking for an agent - they should love your work. You are entitled to work with someone who believes in you. Why do business with someone who is ambivalent about you and your art?
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We look at our albums as stand-alone pieces of art and also as adverts for our live shows.
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The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
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We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.
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I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.
