Art Quotes
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
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Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.
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Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
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The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.
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There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.
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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
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Oh, no. Not me, not Marshall. You want to see Marshall? I'll show you Marshall! I tried to show you art, but you just pick it apart.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
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Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.
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I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.
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I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this 'ambient music.' But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes.
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There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.
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Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.
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Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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Music is an art form that I love dearly, and it's allowed me to bring so many people together and meet so many people.
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...if it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
