My father came to Chennai at the age of 16 from a village in Coimbatore. He was an artist and was clear he wanted to do something, so he came to Chennai and joined an art course for eight years before he came into films.
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
An entire generation of talented people – engineers, artists, scriptwriters, musicians, programmers – have been busy creating a whole new art form for us. The name of this new game is interactivity.
Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!
Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that’s difficult to access – to a level that’s not material but spiritual.
Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It’s something you hone all the time and something which is elusive all the time.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people’s weaknesses.
Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art.
For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one – reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new – that’s my prayer.
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
The value of art is in the observer.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man’s name live for thousands of years.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
I’m interested in all kinds of art. I draw and paint and don’t know how to play the banjo, but I do play the banjo.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God’s grandchild.
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
You can’t rush an art form.
