It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.
It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.
I like to say StumbleUpon provides a personal tour of the Internet. The responses are more targeted to your interests than they would be with a regular search engine. If you choose a topic on our site that you're interested in, such as art, Web sites related to art appear, as if you're leafing through an art magazine.
Art for me is like breathing.
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.
I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.
It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it's about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity.
There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.
I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is.
Politicians are masters of the art of deception.
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do.
I am able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find visual art is a wonderful launching-off place.
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
I want to continue to do some great work. I'm nowhere close to where I want to be. I'm a diverse person who's trying to use his art to make the world better.
My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
Obviously, there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But, pole dancing, as an art form, is really beautiful. It's been hyper-sexualized because it's associated with strippers, but if you think about it, just in terms of other kinds of dancing, they're using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms.
The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about making the city more interesting and more visually significant.
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to pursue this esoteric craft. I didn't date much, really - perhaps because I didn't have many hormones, though I didn't know that at the time.
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
I'm trying to expand the notion of curating. Exhibitions need not only take place in galleries, need not only involve displaying objects. Art can appear where we expect it least.
