Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.
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.
I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
Art must not serve might.
Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
There used to be a lot of industry in Montreal, and now there's not, so it's really easy to get huge, empty spaces where you can practice and make music or make art for very, very cheap.
I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information.
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.
Life is God's art.
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
Obviously, Kanye and I are very different in the way we express ourselves publicly. He's so passionate... about art, about culture, about creativity. And he's really good at it. And that honesty manifests itself in ways that are not politically correct, not socially acceptable sometimes.
So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don't do that.
Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.
The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize it, know it; and having arrived at this, his task is done.
I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.
It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
Art matters.
We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff.'
Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.
As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.
Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be true to yourself and your musical vision. People have known me well for a long time, so if I was chasing a trend and doing something that wasn't authentic to who I am, they would know it in just a few seconds.
One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
My high school didn't have a football team; we just had like a surf team, because I grew up in Encinitas, California, which is the ultimate place where everyone skated or surfed, so it was a very different culture. It was, like, cool to be the art kid.
I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.
My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.
