Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
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.
