Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space – space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.
Tell me thy company, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
I refuse to confide and don’t like it when people write about art.
I’ve always been interested in art and making things, but I chose not to go to art school because I thought I needed to do something else. Art was a tough way to make a living.
What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we’re surrounded by things we can’t see.
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.
And really the purpose of art – for me, fiction – is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.
Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can’t lose that.
Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.
Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.
Music is an expression of individuality; it’s how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there – express it – whether it’s sculpture, dance or singing.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
I always saw hurdles as a form of art, because it’s very individual. One technique that may produce a world record for one guy could be useless for another guy.
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
The trouble with movies as a business is that it’s an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it’s a business.
I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
