Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.
I was always exploring relationships between art and science.
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.
I have always been a Peter Blake fan and love street art and graffiti. I really like this street-art collective called Faile. They're from Brooklyn and make these prints of beautiful women.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
The art of life is to show your hand.
Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.
My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman.
I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.
The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.
With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.
All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
It's 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.
Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form.
Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
I sometimes am challenged to imagine where the timbre of art should be. Should it be about objects that point to this current moment, or how objects are related to ideas of this current moment?
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
