It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.
Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis. (Whatever advice you give, be brief.)
I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.
I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.
You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.
Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
Jane Austen never repeats herself.
What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history. (In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III')
But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.
Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!
The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.
