Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Wishing to open my mouth, O brethren, and speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with fear, even as a man who understands that he is about to discourse concerning God with the art of his own words. For humility is the raiment of the Godh...
Love-making is an art which must be studied.
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
Photographing a cake can be art.
Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.
I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodne...
Not just art for art's sake, but I want to have films out there that will provoke authentic, holistic conversations about the human condition. And not provide the easy answers, but put it out there.
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.
Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.
