Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.
The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.
I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.
Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
The art of DJing is sharing music with one another... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based.
In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.
I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
What you do in your art - TV, music, film stuff - touches people. And they want to touch you. So that's a blessing. I'm okay with it.
I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want it to take over my acting.
I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
