All nature is but art unknown to thee.
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase – a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
To me, snowboarding is really an art form, and I think every athlete, every snowboarder has her own style, and that makes them stand out.
Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn’t just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.
I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art, politics, whatever. And I have never been like that.
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
To do art, one thing should always remember – subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
Artists don’t talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it’s stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
I wrote ‘The Painted Word,’ about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one.
I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
We talk too much of black art when we should be talking about art, just art. Black composers must be free to write rondos and fugues, not only protest songs.
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
Architecture is art, nothing else.
Graffiti’s always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
