All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn’t read it the way you read history or science.
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.
I do like to write nasty songs. It’s a useful weapon to have, and it’s cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
I’ve always been obsessed with the art of transformation.
The way I make art – the way a lot of people make art – is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.
When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
I don’t think you can create art out of anger; it has to come out of some form of understanding. You have to feel good about who you are and that you could do something to change things.
Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
It’s obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one’s art.
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
People think our work is monumental because it’s art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.
I think art is the only thing that’s spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people’s interpretations of God. I don’t think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.
The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn.
Translation is the art of failure.
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
Trash has given us an appetite for art.
Picasso said, ‘Art is a lie that tells the truth.’ What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
