Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well.
To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.
Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.
New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
Art that has depth makes a strong impact on the spirit, emotion, mood and thoughts of a human being.
Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it.
I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false
In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
Whether it is a big ship or small ship, the same size hole placed correctly in the hull can sink it.
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.
To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.
Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.
The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.
I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.
Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.
Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.
Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.
I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.
Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one.
Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.
There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.
Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.
For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst.
Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.