I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.
Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.
A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Composing for movies is not an easy job - its a different art altogether, and moreover, I don't want to get involved in too many things at one time and want to concentrate on my shows and albums.
Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get mor...
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
I rely on one thing in this world: my actions. I will leave nothing to chance and prefer playing the game of life with the strongest hand possible.
It's hard to make things right for everyone." "But if everybody helped just one person, lots of people would get helped.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
I've learned that the only things we are in control of are the choices we make at any one given moment.
There was another thing I had forgotten about the South: It was the one place on earth where an unsuspecting person could get killed by kindness.
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a cer...
It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.
I knew the woodsy fragrance that accompanied Reed was his natural scent. It was one of the many things that made him hard to resist.
I would write a thousand foolish things that one might be to the point, if only it might make us praise God more.
I tell myself relationships are hard work. No one is perfect. There's no such thing as happily ever after.
It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on...
