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What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.
Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.
When I die I intend to take my music with me. I don't know what's out there, but I want to make sure it's in my key.
The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.
The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Once you hit 40, you can't do it anymore. Who's got this energy to go on three hours of sleep? You just can't do it.
Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.
The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know.
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.
WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.
The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.
The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.
I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.
Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.
If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.
Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me.
I think the challenges that come with the responsibility of art directing something is something that appeals to me.
Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?
The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.
I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.
Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.
I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.
If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality.
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue
I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.
Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
I had to cut a lot of things I wanted to keep [in The Art of Elegance]. I'm going to have to do a part two for sure.
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.
I really believe in my work and in no way think I'm taking advantage of anyone. I feel generous when selling my art.
You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.
Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.
Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.