Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian
I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.
In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.
Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.
I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks your imagination. It's a type of microfunding directed toward creators.
Art: You-you-you realize this is an invitation to men in white suits with happy pills?
Stephen Hawking: [introducing themselves for the first time] Hello. Jane Hawking: Hello. Stephen Hawking: Science. Jane Hawking: Arts.
Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.
The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.
I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.
While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.
Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.
More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.
I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.
I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe.
Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach.
The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.
