“Growing up, I didn't have a family of creatives. I didn't have knowledge that becoming an artist was an option. I'm not from a wealthy family, and when you come from those circumstances, doing art isn't really an option.” ArtArtistGrowing UpGrowingBecomingCircumstancesArt IsWealthy Author:Kesh
“I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do.” ThinkingArtEnoughAbilityConsciousnessDangerArt IsCriticalDon't TrustDisappearanceDissolution Author:Fady Joudah
“I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I was a potter for a number of years and earned a BFA in art before going to graduate school for creative writing.” IfsWritingYearsArtSchoolLanguageNumbersWonderCreativeArt IsBackgroundsVisualsGraduatesCreative WritingPottersVisual ArtGraduate SchoolMateriality Author:Anna Journey
“I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.” ThinkingArtBenefitsArt IsAttributesExplosivesInsidiousAccessibility Author:Jeffrey Lewis
“There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.” WritingWellsKindArtImportantIdeasArt IsBetrayalSuperiorsGarbagePerverseness Author:Matthew Specktor
“I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a vanguard logic that pressures art to incorporate the quotient of risk.” WorldArtRiskArt IsLogicPressureArt WorldBelittleVanguard Author:Rachel Kushner
“I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.” ThinkingArtListeningArt IsSubjective Author:Billy Boyd
“Everywhere I've been, from South Africa to Brazil, people are connected to it. For me, art is a way to bring people together. You can put people on the same level, the perception is the same. You can bring a worker, like a cleaning guy, or the richest guy on earth, and they will have the same feeling or they would be able to feel the same.” PeopleWayFeelsArtFeelingsWould BeAbleEarthTogetherGuyLevelsPerceptionArt IsSouthWorkersConnectedSouth AfricaCleaningBrazil Author:eL Seed
“Writing about something specific, in my mind, was overwhelming, so I wrote about art because I love art and I know I can say a couple of funny things about art.” KnowsWritingMindArtI CanCoupleArt IsOverwhelmingFunny Things Author:Walter Martin
“I don't really know what people's perception about Palestinians.All art is to better life. We want to create hope and share with others. Create more pleasure, and object to despair. Really it's about that. A space where we can be less aggressed upon.” PeopleKnowsWantArtSpacePleasureShareObjectsDespairPerceptionArt IsPalestinianBetter Life Author:Elia Suleiman
“We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there is a not-knowingness, I think, that leads us back to suffering humanity with a more compassionate vision than most of our politicians have.” ThinkingArtMadeCertainSufferingHumanityVisionPoetPoliticianArt IsUncertaintyCompassionate Author:Sam Hamill
“Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly. Twitter, videos posted online - how do you utilize that? How do you identify yourself as an individual when you're sitting at this massive dinner table of the world with everyone on, from Kansas to Dubai?” PeopleWorldWayArtDifferentHandsIndividualArt IsSittingAppreciateTablesDinnerVideoDifferent WaysOnlineMassiveConsumedKansasDinner TableDubai Author:Ben Sollee
“The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind. It's a cliché for a reason - we all kind of work our own paths through the woods. There are not a lot of paths through the woods for someone who sings, plays the cello, and wants to tour on a human scale and create change in the world. I'm on my own path. It's pretty awesome.” WorldWantHumansKindArtReasonPlayChoicesMy OwnBehindsPathArt IsWoodsScalesWho I AmAll KindsFootsteps Author:Ben Sollee
“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” LifeArtJobsBeautifulArtistBeautyVisionCreativeMysteryArt IsPainterArtisticFine ArtsCreative ArtFamous ArtistCreative ArtistsArt And ArtistsInspirational ArtistInspirational ArtFine ArtistsArtists And WritersArtistic ProcessInspiration And ArtArtists And LifeArt Inspiration Author:Francis Bacon
“The most important thing in art is taste.” ArtImportantTasteArt IsImportant ThingsAppliances Author:Sean Lennon
“I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not working as well.” WayTryingBelieveWellsArtSupportArt IsIndependentNew WaysOld Ways Author:Mark Duplass
“The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy, and then bring that to the forefront.” TryingArtCharacterJobsSupportArt IsResponseEmpathetic Author:Ryan Hurst
“asically, we got to know other and openly trade stories, and had some time to prep. As far as the 'going too far' thing, the great thing about film art is that you can go too far, and with multiple takes nobody has to see it.” KnowsArtStoriesFilmArt IsTradeGreat ThingsMultiplePreps Author:Luke Kirby
“In many inner cities, there are issues of less economic stability, poorer education, community centers being stripped away, arts being removed from the school system leaving many children imbalanced, isolated from their most powerful self... the independent thinker, the creator, the dreamer often leaving children more susceptible to other harmful things out of boredom or feelings of rejection.” ChildrenArtSelfFeelingsSchoolCommunityPowerfulCitiesIssuesEconomicArt IsIndependentLeavingCreatorRejectionBoredomMost PowerfulThinkerStabilityDreamerIsolatedSusceptibleSchool SystemInner CityCommunity CentersEconomic Stability Author:Mya
“Art is the more spiritual side of education that really does saves lives and makes amazing individuals.” DoeArtSpiritualIndividualSidesArt IsSave A Life Author:Mya
“I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.” PeopleThinkingWayArtArt IsGreat Things Author:Amy Ray
“The problem has to be answered by means of art, because you can't blast them with bliss. Tat freaks them out even more. So instead, you have to have an artful way of approaching them. You do a dance for them, you get them to imagine being interconnected, and to imagine being free of their suffering, and not so self involved, through art that draws them out. Then you, and they, are all established in what's called a Buddha-verse, or Buddha-land” WayMeanArtSelfProblemSufferingImagineLandInvolvedDrawsArt IsBlissFreakVersesBlastBeing FreeInterconnected Author:Robert Thurman
“I love voice over work. To me, voice over and animation is such an art, because you focus solely on your voice. You do not focus on how to speak, combined with facial expressions, movement, etc. You as the actor need to convey all those things with only your voice.” NeedsArtActorsSpeakVoiceFocusMovementExpressionArt IsEtcAnimationFacialFacial ExpressionVoice Over Author:Atticus Shaffer
“In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special case; we learn politics by examining our own government system, and consider other systems special cases, and the same is true of philosophy.” ArtPhilosophyGovernmentCasesSpecialArt IsWesternUsaAsianExaminingArt History Author:Jay L. Garfield
“My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.” ArtTermFindingsArt IsUglyRealismThesisUgly Truth Author:Nikki Jean
“One of the things I love about art, is that it can say number of things to people. I broad hope is that it would just open people's hearts and that they would experience love, and that that would experience God.” PeopleHeartArtNumbersArt IsBroadsThings I LoveExperience Love Author:Michael Gungor
“All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.” IfsArtAliveStageArt Is Author:Constantin Stanislavski
“I'm a New Yorker. I'm liberal and open-minded. Things don't really shock me. But I was reading the second-act today and thinking that if you're religious, you could be. But you shouldn't be! You can be extremely religious and have your faith and still be open-minded to art. Because this is art. That's part of the excitement. It literally is "The Jerry Springer Show" on-stage set to beautiful operatic music. That's what's so incredible about it!” IfsThinkingArtStillsShowsTodayBeautifulReadingReligiousStageArt IsIncrediblesExcitementShockBe YouOpen MindedNew YorkersJerryJerry Springer Show Author:Max von Essen
“I try to be patient. I feel like the point of art is to go down within yourself and to pop up into other people. If you're lucky, all of a sudden you're like, "whoop!" You're in other people.” PeopleIfsFeelsTryingArtLuckyArt IsPatientPopsBe Patient Author:Travis Morrison
“Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.” HumansArtArt Is Author:Cass McCombs
“Art is what gets communicated at a live show, which is why live shows are so amazing. To communicate in a different way is a mixed message. It devalues everything.” WayArtDifferentShowsMessagesArt IsCommunicateDifferent WaysDevalue Author:Alex Scally
“In hindsight I can see that my love for the arts began by watching my father and his colleagues perform on stage in Jamaica, and running a muck among the exhibits of fabulous Jamaican art at the National Gallery while mum was upstairs curating.” ArtI CanRunningFatherStageArt IsMumColleaguesFabulousGalleryExhibitsHindsightUpstairsJamaicaJamaicans Author:Michael Hyatt
“My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.” PeopleWorldTryingLooksPersonsArtWholeRealityMightArtistArt IsTendenciesGood PersonEscapingBeing A Good PersonKeyholes Author:Lykke Li
“Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.” ThinkingArtIdeasHardDreamFantasyArt IsYour Dreams Author:Karin Dreijer Andersson
“Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent?” IfsFeelsTryingArtSometimesCertainArt IsMirrors Author:Tracee Ellis Ross
“In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable way of excising a lot of your conscience.” WayArtDesireFantasyComfortableArt IsConscienceReleaseFetish Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“We have basic urges all the time. They just manifest themselves in different scenarios, and we have to turn those weaknesses into our strengths. Art is very much about making your weaknesses your strength.” ArtDifferentTurnsArt IsWeaknessUrgesManifestScenarios Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.” ThinkingChildrenArtSaidIdeasArt IsAdultsSculpture Author:Carl Andre
“I don't like getting hit for one, although you know I did take Aikido for many years, but Aikido is a different kind of martial art, maybe even a more cerebral art because it's all about redirecting the energies of your opponent instead of trying to bash your opponent's head in effectively, so it's a much more loving art, so I guess I tend that way normally anyway.” KnowsWayTryingYearsKindArtDifferentEnergyArt IsOpponentsMartial ArtsDifferent KindsCerebralAikidoBash Author:Maurice Ashley
“Like William Morris, Joe Hollis asks us to perceive paradise gardening as a juncture where artfulness directly serves life. In fact, we might go so far as to define this paradise as the place where art is indistinguishable from life, and where simplicity is codified as the best path for achieving happiness.” LifeArtFactsMightHappinessAsksPathAchieveArt IsSimplicityPerceiveParadiseGardeningMorrisJunctureAchieving Happiness Author:Jim Nollman
“Understand that the essence of martial arts is not the art itself, but what's hidden deep within yourself.” ArtArt IsEssenceMartial ArtsDeep Within Author:Gogen Yamaguchi
“Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.” WayArtDreamLightLove IsArt IsAnd LoveMathGuides Author:Mike Norton
“Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.” KnowsArtImportantMilitaryEmotionalArt IsDefense Author:Quincy Jones
“Art history is fine. I mean, that's a discipline. Art history is art history, and you start from the beginning and you end up in artist in time. But art is a little bit different. Art is a conversation. And if there's no conversation, what the hell is it about?” IfsMeanLittlesArtDifferentEndsArtistBitsHellFineDisciplineConversationLittle BitArt IsArt History Author:Lawrence Weiner
“What art is not processed? "Conceptual art." Somebody making a painting has to conceive of the size. I don't understand where these words came from. I can't accept the fact that the concept of art as our concept of humanity is expanding.” ArtI CanFactsHumanityAcceptingPaintingArt IsConceptsSizeExpandingConceptual Art Author:Lawrence Weiner
“In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.” KnowsArtEyeArt Is Author:Lawrence Weiner
“I think Mixed Martial Arts is going to be a huge thing coming up in pro wrestling, and I like to think of myself as one of the first guys to try and implement that into my style.” ThinkingTryingFirstsArtGuyStyleHugeArt IsMartial ArtsWrestlingPro WrestlingMixed Martial Arts Author:CM Punk
“I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist. If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveLooksArtArtistOrderAsksTalkingCrazyStreetsArt IsWander Author:Steven Soderbergh
“I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really operate outside of it. So looking for what this work is really about, if I look at Velázquez, if I look at Las Meninas or The Tapestry Weavers [1657] or something and really study it and try to figure out what that painting is really about, then I find relationships between what I'm trying to do and what he was doing.” IfsTryingLooksMeanArtFactsStudyFiguresPaintingArt IsTraditionJustificationTapestryArt HistoryWeavers Author:Robert Barry