Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.
It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story.
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
It takes a certain type of man to become a boxer, to fight for a living. To be able to have the confidence to hit another man, to control your fears. You must overcome the psychical aspect and believe in the art, the discipline of the sport. You need to study. You need to be smart.
An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it.
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love, so that your focus is your artistry.
I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions.
I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art.
My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.
I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white reproductions on miserable paper. That was, for many years, what art was for me. But from those miserable black-and-white reproductions, I got something, something unmistakable.
I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.
You have to remember that Finnish people hate art.
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.
Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.
Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
I pay a lot of attention to composition in my art, and I will often shift myself or change a pose according to the golden triangle rule of photography composition.
