Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.
All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.
I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you ho...
There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.
I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline, really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore, and that's no good. To make art you need to be inspired.
I like people that challenge their art, not only in the purist way, but also in terms of how they could provoke and make something different.
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people.
I thought conceptual art was a joke.
The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.
I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of my work.
I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.
Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
