In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
I had a project called 'Cover Art,' which was the first project I did under the new name Anderson .Paak. I went through this process where I was recording new music for about six months straight.
Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.
Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
It appears to be monumental only because it's art.
Art is the path to being spiritual.
Short stories are my favorite art form. A good one is compact and complete, a telling little slice of life, capturing a moment in time that - for the character - defines her, changes her, is the tipping point for all that will follow.
For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things.
The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.
I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me.
It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.
I wanted to find a way to merge my taste as an art and creative director with my new little obsessions: babies and motherhood and all of that. So I began working on my website, Romy and the Bunnies, which is named after my daughter, Romy.
Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a lot of other things.
I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.
But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
Art is the triumph over chaos.
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. 'M.A.S.H.' comes to mind. So does 'The Iliad.'
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
Never judge a work of art by its defects.
The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
After Newport, I worked in television for a while, and then I went to The Royal College Of Art and did a master's degree. I really did study quite a lot!
Film and art are close together.
All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
