Art Quotes
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I love to read history; at its best, it is an art.
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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
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Martial art has always been my first love.
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As quoted in ''HEY, YOU CAN JUST MAKE STUFF UP.' Differences between magic and art: None', by Peter Bebergal, The Believer, (2013).
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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.
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I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists do, there's more space for them to do their art without having to discuss it in terms of racial identity.
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The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.
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The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.
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People who aren't artists don't think about creativity and art; they think about money.
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But O the heavy change, now thou art gone,Now thou art gone and never must return!
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Art is the triumph over chaos.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
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All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase and go. And I have so much because of that, because it's what I've always done to pass the time, and I like it.
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Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
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And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.
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We live in an age that's very suspicious of preachy political rhetoric, which means that there's room for art that approaches these issues from the side - as satire, as parody, or as a kind of outlandish speculative proposition.
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The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.
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There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.
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I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.
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I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.
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In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, people were always trying to mix music and art - in fact, I'm guilty of it myself.
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I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.
