If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.
If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?
Anything we can do to encourage our young people to celebrate the arts and believe in a career in the arts is wonderful for Canada and for Canadian youth.
Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.
The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, 'Your ego will get you killed.'
I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.
That's the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn't have to be in the arts, obviously. In my case, I gravitated toward the arts.
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.
Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.
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.
I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.
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.
