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!
I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist – that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
‘Crazy’ is a term of art; ‘Insane’ is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb.
Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Art is the daughter of freedom.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Baking is both an art and a science.
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone… means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
We have to support our local artists. It’s just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively. In London, it’s all about color because the weather is so gray, and in that cold light they look beautiful.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Politics is the art of the possible.
Fine art is knowledge made visible.
Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
Life is short, the art long.
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.
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
I think what we’re attracted to on the page is something that is very difficult to do in life, which is to examine in what seems like a moment. To examine what we can’t do in life very well, which is to be as present and accountable to what an experience is. That’s why life is short and art is very long.
Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
I’m giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.
My hand is the extension of the thinking process – the creative process.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.
Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
I think people generally are lost, as they keep thinking about what is going to happen and what they have done. They are not alive anymore. The art of listening is missing. In their head, they are doing something else.
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it’s simply necessary to love.
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Where thou art, that is home.
What inspires me to paint is life, my emotions, through my paintings I want people to understand that life isn’t always happy but you should be always hopeful that’s why I use bright colors in my paintings, that’s what I want people to feel about me and when they see my art.
It’s not a science when you are judging art, but we’d be remiss to say you can’t look at something and say, ‘This is more well done than that.’
Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.
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 the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
I adore art… when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?
