The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is – as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
I think it’s the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you’re a person that matters.
At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art. But I genuinely want to change the world. I’m very generous, and I really want people to see that I am – that’s really it.
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of eye-opening perspective on some social issues, then it can be a really powerful piece of art.
There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.
If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn’t be nearly as interesting.
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. ‘Action sport’ would be the least offensive categorization.
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don’t think its fair that I’m living for something I can’t even define.
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That’s art to me.
