I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing.
People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't.
I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize,...
I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that ...
I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.
I always thought of words as art supplies.
It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.
I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.
Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great.
Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.
I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.
I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what.
My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in - I would have been in high school - 2005 or something.
I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.
I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.
One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits meldin...
All good art, to me, is uncertainty.
