Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.
I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings.
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
The best artists know what to leave out.
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
To me, snowboarding is really an art form, and I think every athlete, every snowboarder has her own style, and that makes them stand out.
Art is all in the details.
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
Whether it be personal or musical, I just think I'm a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.
For me, fragrances are very - one of these beautiful art forms that bring about a whole host of things. It's what you want to smell like, it's memories that make you smile or are resonant of times in your life, it can remind you of music. If you're a lover of scent, it's a very kind of particular and evocative thing.
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
Painting and writing are solitary arts.
There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.
Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
Cleanliness is the scourge of art.
I've taken a lot of risks through the years, but I always followed my instincts and always explored new opportunities. The biggest reward has been having an idea and being able to make it a reality. My passions always lead the way - travel and adventure, fitness, art, and home.
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
I look at a lot of artists. I'm inspired by - I suppose I shouldn't say 'inspired,' but it's not really influenced. I am inspired. Art comes from art.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.