What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides.
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.
Cooking well, with love, is an art.
My mother Reba Vidyarthi was a Kathak dancer while my father Govind Vidyarthi was a theatre personality. Later on, he worked for Sangeet Natak Akademi and documented many dying art forms of India.
I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling.
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'
My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.
All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.
Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Art is the signature of civilizations.
My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
I wanted to be a cartoonist, but there was no cartoon academy. So I enrolled in the Royal Danish Art Academy School of Architecture. But then I really got smitten by architecture.
Like with any good art form, if you can entertain people and make them think, it's an honor. It's just an honor to be a comedian.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.
Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.
I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.
Paint the essential character of things.
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
We're all works of art in progress.
We do not judge great art. It judges us.
Even a true artist does not always produce art.