Quotes about art
art thinking feelings
Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings. Alan Moore
artist would-be wanted
If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.
art talking looks
The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.
art magic stories
I don't distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever since I wrote my first pathetic story or poem when I was twelve or whatever. This has all been my magic, my way of dealing with it.
art sleep writing
You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world inside my head has always been a far richer place than the world outside it. I suppose that a lot of my art and writing are meant to bring the two together.
art book creativity
To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.
art writing light
Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.
art differences magic
For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.
art believe writing
There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at the very earliest descriptions of magic. Magic in its earliest form is often referred to as “the art”. I believe this is completely literal. I believe that magic is art and that art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture, or any other form is literally magic.
art magic consciousness
Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness
art believe writing
I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve changes in consciousness… Indeed to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change peoples consciousness, and this is why I believe that an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world to a shaman.
art skills ideas
The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas. Alan Greenspan
art voice sound
Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own. Alan Bennett
artist found difficult
But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult. Alan Bean
art giving grandparent
I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it. Alan Alda
artist use actors
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
art queens media
Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes. Al Stewart
art media giving
She doesn't give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears.
art pieces woods
Tiger Woods is like a piece of fine art that belongs in the Louvre, and so, too, is Scott Medlock's painting of Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia...a true masterpiece! Al Michaels
art school levels
I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high. Al Pacino
art art-is
Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life. Al Jourgensen
art thinking ruins
The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.
art life-is
Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along. Al Hirschfeld
art artist vulnerable
The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be. Al Alvarez
art may coherence
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
art real nerves
The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
art imagination police
Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.
artist thinking legends
Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes. Akon
art faces rays
Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going. Akhenaton
art way technique
I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film. Akira Kurosawa
art mean eye
To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.
artist looks roles
The role of the artist is to not look away.
art people film
I am so glad people have started making films n martial arts and self-defense, which is actually the need of the hour. Akshay Kumar