Rules and models destroy genius and art.
William Hazlitt
Art
Art must take reality by surprise.
Art must take reality by surprise.
Francoise Sagan
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one’s imagination.
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one’s imagination.
Ellen Key
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.
When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.
Bali is one of those places you can just keep going back to, and everything is there: the infrastructure, the culture, the art, the beautiful villas. My wife Liv and I go there quite often because we know that when we do arrive, it's like an instant holiday.
Bali is one of those places you can just keep going back to, and everything is there: the infrastructure, the culture, the art, the beautiful villas. My wife Liv and I go there quite often because we know that when we do arrive, it’s like an instant holiday.
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
Youssou N’Dour
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.
I think the whole response to our art being so positive is that it rings true and it feels a unique thing and I feel that was the thing that we strive for in the beginning was to not conform to any preconceived notions of what we should be doing.
I think the whole response to our art being so positive is that it rings true and it feels a unique thing and I feel that was the thing that we strive for in the beginning was to not conform to any preconceived notions of what we should be doing.
LACMA has the imprimatur of art, and that’s a big leg up.
LACMA has the imprimatur of art, and that’s a big leg up.
Elvis Mitchell
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.
The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.
And what I love about music and art in general is that you can take something so negative or positive – any emotion, no matter how sad or happy – and turn it into art.
And what I love about music and art in general is that you can take something so negative or positive – any emotion, no matter how sad or happy – and turn it into art.
Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there – express it – whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.
Music is an expression of individuality; it’s how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there – express it – whether it’s sculpture, dance or singing.
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.