Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.
Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.
Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.
Fear imprisons, courage liberates, and love strengthens.
Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.
Seattle is this curious liberal 'island.'
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Liberation is the shift from 'What if?" to 'So what!
My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his...
When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high a...
In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after...
And is it not the artists that make art? Well, no: criticism is now the substance of art making to such a degree that many of today’s public artists do away with the product as an issue, and make public debate the contents of their art. In doing so...
The title of this Chautauqua is "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," not "Zen and the Art of Mountain Climbing," and there are no motorcycles on the tops of mountains, and in my opinion very little Zen. Zen is the "spirit of the valley," not ...
Keep music and art alive in our schools because the greatness of a country is not measured by wars that are won, by territory annexed or even the size of a deficit. It is measured by the beauty of the art work by talented hands, the sounds of the mus...
Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.
I like that the art world isn't regulated.
Art is my life and my life is art.
Love art in yourself, not yourself in art.
Only unconditional grace can transform a hardened heart into a grateful heart. Only a free gift can demolish any notion of quid pro quo. Only an utterly merciful act of love can fashion a new creation capable of love. As theologian Karl Barth puts it...
