Art Quotes
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art.
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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
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If your reading habits are anything like mine, then you can remember the exact moment that certain books came into your life. You remember where you were standing and whom you were with. You remember the feel of the book in your hands and the cover, that exact cover, even if the art has changed over the years.
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A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
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Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
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I feel like the world is dominated by such a small group of human beings. There are so many different kinds of people that aren't represented, that don't have characters who look like them. And that's one of the reasons why I intend on being a director, because I want to actually tell some of these stories. I also think that we place such intense emphasis on award shows when they're not necessarily the best reflection of how good the work is. We need to realize that art and creation are so much bigger than an award or any measure of accomplishment.
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The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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The law of simplicity and naivety applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.
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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.
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For me, those little cinemas in Paris where I saw many art films for the first time meant that cinema became a kind of pilgrimage site.
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I try to not to overanalyze, not to watch myself too much, but to be present in life and in my art. I'm so glad it comes off in that way.
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
