I define my work as a feminist act and a political act because I’m black and a woman. You don’t necessarily have to claim that, but the act of making art itself is a political and feminist act when you’re a woman.
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.
The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.
It’s an art to live with pain… mix the light into gray.
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
Your body is not your art – it’s your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scratched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Art is eternal, but life is short.
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
All art is erotic.
Baking is both an art and a science.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn’t exist in a vacuum. That’s why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Owning vinyl is like having a beautiful painting hanging in your living room. It’s something you can hold, pore over the lyrics, and immerse yourself in the art work.
If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved – bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.
London, thou art the flower of cities all!
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.
Art is all in the details.
My mother Reba Vidyarthi was a Kathak dancer while my father Govind Vidyarthi was a theatre personality. Later on, he worked for Sangeet Natak Akademi and documented many dying art forms of India.
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
Politics is the art of the possible.
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb.
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
