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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.
My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.
Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness.
I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.
Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.
Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.
There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta rap.
Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.
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.
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.
It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.
It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.
From an art perspective, I dont know how you get better than Beetlejuice. In terms of originality and a look, its 100% unique.
I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk into it.
As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
So requisite is the use of Astrology to the Arts of Divination, as it were the Key that opens the door of all their Mysteries.
I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.
Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.
As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.
Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.
Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.
Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.
Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.
art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.
It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as yor own.
Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.
In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.
The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.
For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.
The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is, "Yes dear".
As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.
From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.
I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.
Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.
The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.
The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in writing.
To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry.
Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.
Duchamp's urinal was art once he put it in a gallery. In fact, one working definition of art is anything that is in a gallery.
When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.
Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren't enjoying the dream.
The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.
I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.
With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent of the enemy.
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.