What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.
With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning. It exists for no good reason. But that's practically a definition of art.
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?
With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others' houses and going to the library to do art and stuff. It's almost like our own little school - a really little school.
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image.
I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.
That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.
It would be both an identical work of art only by virtue of its difference. The same but different, he suggested, like twins.
This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes.
An artist must either give up art or develop.
It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.
He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.
