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The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I'd like to believe I'm an expert.
Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.
Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.
I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.
As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art.
If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.
There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact sciences.
The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago.
In Washington, of course, evading responsibility is an art form, so it is not always easy to tell who's responsible for which mess.
The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.
With ticket prices, do you ask yourself, why I'm paying $70 to see the arts? You say, "No, that's what the symphony is costing me."
Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!
Colour is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers.
In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.
I think my initial desire to start making art came from a desire and a need to communicate but not having anyone to communicate to.
Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.
Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.
Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps
The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.
I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.
The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.
All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.
Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.
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 in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.
Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.
My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.
There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.
I'm not really anti-gang - I was a gang member and so was my son. I'm pro-youth, pro-community, pro-family, pro-arts, and pro-peace.
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?