In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.
The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
I have long accepted that an art fair is not a perfectly curated museum show. Instead, it's more like a brightly lit bazaar, where art is haggled over and handled like any other commodity.
I enjoy looking, learning, smiling, and engaging with art, sometimes even rejecting it.
Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.
It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues.
I'm not a culture snob. So while, of course, I think the Mozart 'Requiem' or, say, Beethoven's 'Ninth' are some of the greatest works of art in the history of humankind, that's not to say the Beatles or Queen or Simon and Garfunkel aren't brilliant, ...
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
The course of Nature is the art of God.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Art has more ego to it than what I do.
