The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
Tap dancing is like... it's equivalent to music, not only for the African American community, but also for the world. Tap dancing is like language; it's like air: it's like everything else that we need in order to survive. I'm blessed and honored to be knowledgeable of the art form and to be a part of the art form.
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.
In comics, you have to imagine what happens. I really loved it; I loved collecting. I loved following the adventures and figuring out what was going to happen next. I was a huge X-Men fan; I was a huge Spider-Man fan, and, to large degree, I remain one. It's literature for me; it's art.
All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.
You can make clothing as art, but I like the idea of my clothes actually being worn and being useful to women.
Great trouble breeds great art, I think.
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
Fine art is knowledge made visible.
I just want to have folks be comfortable and just share and have a good conversation. To me, that's kind of a lost art.
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.
Translation is the art of failure.
Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.
I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
Politics is the art of the possible.
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.
I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old.
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
