When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
I don't think you should ever damage other people for your art.
Like with any good art form, if you can entertain people and make them think, it's an honor. It's just an honor to be a comedian.
Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
In Australia, there aren't a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they're very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity.
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.
Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.
I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
DJing is an art that I have the utmost respect for, and I've been practising it since I was 17 years old. Doing Tom Cruise wedding-type things becomes the focal point of every interview, and you realize that you have to cut it out if you don't want to be answering questions about that.
I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.
I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That's part of the Jewish tradition.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
I still care about human behavior and the art that it takes to write a good piece and to get a cast together who cares enough to put 150 percent of their talent into a project.
Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
