New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.
John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.
There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science.
Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.
In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities.
I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.
[Repeated line] Ulysses Everett McGill: Damn! We're in a tight spot!
Delmar O'Donnell: Friend? Some of your foldin' money's come unstowed.
Ulysses Everett McGill: I don't get it, Big Dan.
George Nelson: I'm George Nelson, and I'm feeling ten feet tall!
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Art becomes an honest expression once done for oneself. Failure of that results to empty and transparent art.
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.
We have no obligation other than to be ourself. Your friends, your family, the daily beat of life will shape you into a form pleasing to them. Your job is to make something pleasing to you. As soon as a crowd forms, leave it.
All belief is the least reliable form of knowing...Where there is a natural knowing of God, there is not need for belief. The highest form of certainty is something you know so thoroughly and so naturally that it's impossible to put into words.
. . .criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise: it allows it to be heard; and even if we can't see it or feel it, it is there, shaping how we hear.
Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another.
