Art Quotes
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The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
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In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not regularly, because I never liked writing non-fiction very much.
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I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.
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I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.
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Visionary art sure has played a vital role in my own "soul's journey," and I would say it's been important for many artists and viewers throughout history. Visionary art is one of the primary ways that human contact with higher subtle dimensions gets translated into our communally shared physical dimension.
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Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter.
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The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
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The first thing that will strike you as odd in Japan is how polite everyone is. Quite apart from the neverending bowing, they have obsequiousness down to an art that even the Chinese haven't mastered.
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There is a conceptual depth as well as a purely visual depth. The first is discovered by science; the second is revealed in art. The first aids us in understanding the reasons of things; the second in seeing their forms. In science we try to trace phenomena back to their first causes, and to general laws and principles. In art we are absorbed in their immediate appearance, and we enjoy this appearance to the fullest extent in all its richness and variety. Here we are not concerned with the uniformity of laws but with the multiformity and diversity of intuitions.
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What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.
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Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.
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In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
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The moment you try to institutionalize art, it ceases to be art.
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I learned the life of business, commerce - it's an art.
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I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.
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I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.
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My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.
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From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.
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I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
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If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!
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In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.
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An honest curator will admit that judgement is fallible, especially for art made yesterday.
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Were this thoroughly understood, industrial art would be entirely revolutionized - industrial art, that barbarous term, an art which concerns itself with commerce and profit.
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Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.
