Art is spiritual.
Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.
There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.
I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.
Just think for a moment if science really could move in the field of authenticity of works of art. There would be a cultural revolution to say the least, but also, I would say, a market revolution, let me add.
Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination.
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have to stand up and say that even when there was dire poverty ten blocks away from Tiffany Studios in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was art and creativity within.
Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.
I asked someone once why he liked Jean-Michel's work and why it was being singled out for acclaim, and he said, 'Because it looks like art.' But then again, art doesn't always look like art at first. The way the space shuttle that lifts off doesn't much resemble the space shuttle as it lands.
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.
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.
It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on.
All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
To me, the machinima artform has essentially evolved now into the Let's Play streaming world. That's what it is: it's people performing and creating art using video games. It's just more personality-driven rather than story-driven these days.
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
I've been slagged off completely by the art world.
To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
We're actually doing something scripted that's totally, you know, we kind of know what's going on, however, we're having to live life and death as the art.
