What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
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 depends on luck and talent.
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It’s basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty.
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Art evokes emotion. It doesn’t have to be a thing of beauty.
One eye sees, the other feels.
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
The value of art is in the observer.
For me, fragrances are very – one of these beautiful art forms that bring about a whole host of things. It’s what you want to smell like, it’s memories that make you smile or are resonant of times in your life, it can remind you of music. If you’re a lover of scent, it’s a very kind of particular and evocative thing.
What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Artists don’t make objects. Artists make mythologies.
I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it’s not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people’s eyes.
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
I’ve taken a lot of risks through the years, but I always followed my instincts and always explored new opportunities. The biggest reward has been having an idea and being able to make it a reality. My passions always lead the way – travel and adventure, fitness, art, and home.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.
Great art – or good art – is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don’t think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Women’s art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I’m resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Owning vinyl is like having a beautiful painting hanging in your living room. It’s something you can hold, pore over the lyrics, and immerse yourself in the art work.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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.
I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
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.
The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art – sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts – as inseparable components of a new architecture.
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
Art is born of humiliation.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don’t mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
