The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.
But technology is simply the making of things and the making of things can't by its own nature be ugly or there would be no possibility for beauty in the arts, which also include the making of things. Actually a root word of technology, , originally ...
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human.
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be exclud...
There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.
I do write about men now and then, but I mostly write about women because that's the work I like best. When I became a feminist, I realized that somebody had to write all about this women's art that was out there ignored, and it was going to be me. A...
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.
I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves...
Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties. And I honestly believe that one or two 9/11s, and martial law will be declared in our country and we're inching towa...