Art Quotes
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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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It is a delicate & difficult art fitting rhythm to an idea...communicating momentary phases in a poet's mind.
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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.
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Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?
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A thrown-stone trajectory is a good metaphor for so many phenomena: the curve of an event, any event; the curve of a life, any life; the curve of a hypothesis; the curve experienced in the manufacture of a work of art; the curve of interest experienced in the manufacture of a catalogue.
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You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.
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Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice of art itself. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that what surrounds us in nature, until, in Neo-Plasticism, nature is no longer dominant. This achievement of balance may prepare the way for the fulfillment of man and signal the end of (what we call) art.
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Thalberg wanted commercial hits. I wanted art.
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I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another.
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God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.
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An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.
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All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.
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Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.
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Of course, I, like the sponsoring government, would like to have as many people as possible visit Yokohama Triennale. This is because I believe that art should not be monopolized by professionals and specialists.
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There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
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It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.
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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.
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I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.
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I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.
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These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.
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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
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I had a project called 'Cover Art,' which was the first project I did under the new name Anderson .Paak. I went through this process where I was recording new music for about six months straight.
