Art Quotes
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In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.
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I think it's very important for any actor to eventually produce, and create the projects they want to create. I believe it's all a part of the same art form, which is storytelling.
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I think that's really important, that kids get exposed to music as soon as they can - not necessarily to become musicians, but at least have an outlet. It's an art form that's easily accessible to young ears.
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Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
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A lack of methodology in Upper Palaeolithic art research has led to confusion of priorities.
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When you're actually making a film, it's just people on your back all the time wanting stuff and you're constantly having to it deal with them. It's probably the most time consuming of all the arts, but I do love it because it is a great mix of visual art and music and writing.
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I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.
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It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.
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You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?
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They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
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I'm inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.
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Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest, the term is sometimes taken to describe what is new at any given time: the leading edge of artistic experiment, which is continually outdated by the next step forward.
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The Who is one of my favorite bands of all time. 'The Who Sell Out' is one of the greatest art-project albums of all time.
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Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.
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'I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's a clever anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.'
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We still go to nonfiction for content. And if it's well-written, that's a bonus. But we don't often talk about the nonfiction work of art. That's what I'm very interested in.
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Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination, all coming together.
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Good-bye, proud world! I’m going home: Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine.
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It's just weird that for some people, art is a luxury. My parents had no artistic outlet. Some people pass down music to their kids, but I couldn't tell you what my mom's or dad's favorite song is. So when I started going out into the world, I was drawn to people who knew about movies, art, even fashion.
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A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.
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Music is art, and making watches is art, too.
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They still need to keep working at getting people to recognize it as an artsy place. There's the potential for Windward, but it's going to take some of the big landowner merchants realizing what we realize: that art pays for itself.
