Art Quotes
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I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.
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Making art is different for everyone.
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I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
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France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
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If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
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She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
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It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a strategem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person.
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I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner.
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I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace.
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I'm an artist, and I like art that gets people talking, good or bad. Criticism is good, too.
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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides.
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What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.
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The course of Nature is the art of God.
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Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.
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There is no such thing as pure art. It's a bourgeois conceit.
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I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.
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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
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Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.
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I have said it before and I will continue to say that I don't think art is the most effective form of protest. I don't think it changes policy; I think it changes discourse, and discourse can change ideas, and for me, that's what it's about: having that space for conversation.
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
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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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I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.
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I always saw candy as art.
