There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.
All these years, I have handpicked my films. It was passion and love for the art that made me do films.
We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
I unfortunately do suffer for my art.
I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
Blest is that government where no art thrives.
I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films... Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.
There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century.
I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.
The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest way to make money was to use art for some other reason. One of the easiest and most interesting from an economic point of view was fashion. Fashion pays.
Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help.
I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.
Where thou art, that is home.
I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.
Art depends on luck and talent.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.
The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.
Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.
Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.
Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'
