I don't make a particular distinction between 'high art' and 'low art.' Music is there for everybody. It's a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it.
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of eye-opening perspective on some social issues, then it can be a really powerful piece of art.
If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.
I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
The temple of art is built in words.
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.
It is hard to separate the art from the artist.
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life.
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
Art is to be free. Design is to fix.
I graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Art in Graphic Design, and all in all, I can look back on my collegiate experience and say that I really did enjoy myself.
Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
I like to learn. That's an art and a science.
The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.
I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.
You don't have to know anything about art to appreciate it or to look at it. There aren't any hidden secrets or things that you're supposed to understand.
I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.