Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.
I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.
The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.
I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.
Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within the manipulation of that altered predisposition.
Fashion is not separate from art. It is inextricably woven into how we open ourselves to the world and articulates the exchanges of power both real and imagined.
Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.
Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.
By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.
I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
