Quotes about art
artist juxtaposition connections
To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions. Corita Kent
art thinking important
I'm not as cool as you think I think I might be, and the most important things in my life are God, love and peace. Everything else is b.s. And art's kind of important, too. Corey Feldman
artist differences tickets
The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket. Corey Taylor
art play people
Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.
art kindness home
The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts. Confucius
art support way
The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts.
art justice confusion
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.
art truth anger
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
art kindness mind
Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.
art literature
We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science. Daniel Tammet
art war years
From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war, foreign and domestic, than for a long period before, and during the controversy between the houses of York and Lancaster. These years of peace were favorable to commerce and the arts. Commerce and the arts augmented general and individual knowledge; and knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty. Daniel Webster
art men civilization
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
art sex men
Am I the only person who hopes that David Beckham has sex with Brad Pitt? I don't know who's in charge of casting in Hollywood, but make it happen before one of them is out of their prime. Can you imagine those two men together making love? If there's a man in here that's junk doesn't wiggle just a little bit at the thought of those two men together - this has nothing to do with your homophobic sexual preference. At that level it's art, you monkey. You should be honored that you share the same restroom with those Greek gods. Daniel Tosh
art giving work-out
You just have to work really hard and throw everything into it. ... It's really hard to be an artist, and even if you do work really hard, there's no guarantee about anything. There's no advice you can give someone that things will somehow work out, but you can talk to people about how they can make art a big part of their life. Dana Schutz
artist luck cost
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much. Dana Spiotta
art thinking self
People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy making something that you can sell in the marketplace, and if nobody wants to buy it, it must be crap. And that's not true.
art writing thinking
I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.
artist people world
There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?
art knowing keys
The key to attempting to create art in some aspect is also knowing that it will turn some people off. Dane Cook
artist self careers
There were times, earlier in my career, where I didn't have the wherewithal to self-edit, and I probably said things and pushed the limits to places where people might be put off. But that's truly part of developing as an artist.
art fun distance
Once the audience has to use themselves to cross the distance to the character, that's what's really exciting. That's when it starts to be a discussion between the art form and the audience, and that's fun stuff. Dallas Roberts
art women writing
Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can dois to write, for in the act of writing we deny our mutedness and beginto eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us. Dale Spender
art length preparing
When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time. Cy Twombly
art careers organization
Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form. Cyndi Lauper
art independence good-business
I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
art hands people
You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people. David Chase
artist exotic done
Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that foreign artists are doing something that's at least as relevant as what's being done here. David Byrne
art doe looks
Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual art, you can look at something ugly, brutal and in your face, but it's kind of - there it is. It doesn't take you over in the same way that putting on the music at a certain volume does.
art isolation
The arts don't exist in isolation.
artist community suspicious
Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
art emotional ideas
It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
art believe bullshit
I don’t believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That’s bullshit.
art makeup brain
Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of our genetic makeup that we can be so deeply moved by this art form. Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can't conceive of it being an isolated thing.