“It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their art, their psychology, their thought forms, their lingual structures, their history, their present moment, their future ideas, and the quality of their emotions.” ArtIdeasMomentsFormHumanityIndividualEasyLevelsEmotionQualityPsychologyGroupsBuddhismBehaviorStructurePresent MomentExamining Author:Frederick Lenz
“Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is not magic, except as human beings are magical. Nor is it concerned in absolutes, eternities, "forms," beyond those that may reside in the context of the human being and be subject to his vicissitudes. Art is not an inner state of consciousness, whatever that may mean. Neither is it essentially a supreme form of communication. Art is human behavior, and its values are contained in human behavior.” HumansKindMayMeanArtStatesActionFormValuesHuman BeingsConsciousnessMagicSubjectsStrangeCommunicationBehaviorArt IsConcernedEternityAbsolutesSupremeAriseComplexityHuman BehaviorStates Of ConsciousnessVicissitudes Author:Baker Brownell
“To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion is one of them- knows where to bend and how to break them.” KnowsMeanArtArtistBreakDisciplineSkillsBehaviorBehaveProportion Author:Burne Hogarth
“Art is a normal and necessary behavior of human beings and like other common and universal occupations such as talking, working, exercising, playing, socializing, learning, loving, and caring, should be recognized, encouraged and developed in everyone. Via art, experience is heightened, elevated, made more memorable and significant” ShouldHumansArtMadeHuman BeingsCommonTalkingExerciseBehaviorNormalArt IsUniversalCaringSignificantMemorableOccupationSocializing Author:Ellen Dissanayake
“Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their own case they are not ashamed of practicing towards others; they demand just rule for themselves, but where other men are concerned they care nothing about it. Such behavior is irrational; unless the one party is, and the other is not, born to serve, in which case men have a right to command, not indeed all their fellows, but only those who are intended to be subjects; just as we ought not to hunt mankind, whether for food or sacrifice . .” ThinkingMenArtGovernmentCareBornPartyCasesSacrificeSubjectsMankindHuman NatureOughtDemandBehaviorConcernedFellowsCommandAshamedIrrationalUnjustHuntsStatesmanshipCommand Not Author:Aristotle
“A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.” PeopleMindArtCultureRecordsBehaviorArt IsProductionsDealing With People Author:Michel de Montaigne
“There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?” KindPersonsDoeArtDesireCertainDealsBehaviorTestsRemarksAdmirableAvant GardeTiresomeAvant Garde Art Author:W. H. Auden
“Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the gifts and talents that are ours. You ask about possible vehicles for change: question, stand, speak, act. Engage in unruly behavior. Disturb the status quo. Take direct action. Commit civil disobedience. Make art. Build community. Dance. Sing. Farm. Cook. Create something beautiful and then give it away. Find your own monkey wrench and use it with the force of love. Sharpen your pencil. Vote.” WayGivingArtWholeUseActionBeautifulAsksSpeakForceCommunityPiecesTalentBehaviorDirectVoteCommitCooksFarmsVehicleMonkeysStatus QuoPencilsDisobedienceCivil DisobedienceSomething BeautifulUnrulyWrenchesDirect ActionGifts And Talents Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.” MenHumansArtUniverseBehaviorHollywoodFunctionConsideringIrrationalHuman BehaviorUnpredictableFrailty Author:William Faulkner
“In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals.” WantArtBodyReadingIndividualProcessSkyBehaviorCaptureOfferingStableShiftingCoherenceCharacterizationSkylinesArt And Life Author:Ben Lerner
“(There is) art that states the problems of society and wakes people up to make changes in their lives or in their communities,...art that offers an alternative, that demonstrates human behavior that can become a model for creativity, cooperation, freedom and playfulness, and...art that in itself provides glimpses of a larger consciousness or reflects upon the inexplicable.” PeopleHumansArtStatesProblemCommunityConsciousnessCreativityOffersBehaviorModelsAlternativesCooperationHuman BehaviorGlimpseMaking ChangesInexplicablePlayfulness Author:Meredith Monk
“Working with the computer gives rise to many opportunities to transcend asocial behavior, because it produces exciting and visually interesting things to share, whether it's by creating video games, computer art or sharing exciting Web sites.” GivingArtOpportunityGamesInterestingShareProduceBehaviorComputerCreatingExcitingVideoSiteInteresting Things Author:Seymour Papert
“Everything can inspire me. I know that sounds like a cop-out answer, but I find inspiration in literally just about everything. As an actor, I have to watch people and observe their behaviors - this is how I create characters. My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road. Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.” PeopleKnowsArtCharacterInspirationActorsSoundAnswersWatchesInspireRight NowBehaviorDrawsAll ThingsLandscapeCopSurroundingsDown The Road Author:Josh McDermitt
“When I went to school, my intention was to be a lawyer. When I attended university that was still the clear intention; I was going to be a lawyer. Why? Because it was as far as I could get from my father's antics and world. I thought that the world of the arts probably led people into the kind of behavior I had seen with him and that had resulted in a lot of hard times for my mother and me.” PeopleWorldKindArtStillsHardSchoolMotherFatherClearBehaviorIntentionUniversityLawyerHard TimesAntics Author:James Lipton
“There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious pursuit of art and my behavior as an artist.” WritingArtPastArtistSeriousMembersBehaviorAngryPressesPursuit Author:Yayoi Kusama
“Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about politics - in fact, heaven forbid. But politics is a totally legitimate area of focus for any art, whether it's painting or songwriting or anything else, as much as sex is, as much as spirituality is, as much as any other behavior of people is.” PeopleMeanArtFactsSpiritualityHeavenSexFocusPaintingBehaviorArt IsAreasSongwritingParts Of Life Author:Bruce Cockburn
“S&M is just a set of practices that get classified as a single category, when more accurately they are a part of much larger set of behaviors: expressions of love, and self, and play, and even art. There is no hard line between "vanilla" sex and S&M sex, or any other kind of relation between people.” PeopleKindArtSelfHardPlaySexLinesPracticeExpressionBehaviorRelationCategoriesVanillaExpressions Of Love Author:Melissa Febos
“Politics right now is in a very dark place, and I think the only place for me is to do what I do - make films, create art, watch it as it evolves. Right now it's like Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall, and a great fall is happening. The behavior seems to be really dumb.” ThinkingArtFilmFallDarkWallBehaviorDumbEvolveHumpty Dumpty Author:Robert Redford
“Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.” Has BeensArtBehaviorHomosexual Author:John Piper
“Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.” ArtBehaviorStriveOilMemorableSwimSwimming Author:Joan Rivers
“Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.” ThinkingWorldArtStarsPartyOpinionPrideBehaviorIndependentRestaurantsHotelSpheresAdoreHandfulExhibitionsArt WorldIndependent ThinkingCopycats Author:Jerry Saltz
“It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.” HumansArtSoulTodayEnergyBehindsFashionDependsBehaviorArt IsConcernedAppreciationMetalsHuman Behavior Author:Josef Albers
“Inside the mirrored elevator, Mulch used a telescopic pointer to push P for the penthouse. For the first few months he had jumped to reach the button, but that was undignified behavior for a millionaire. And besides, he was certain that Art could hear the thumping from the security desk.” FirstsArtUsedCertainSecurityMonthsBehaviorButtonsDesksMillionaireElevatorsPointersPenthouses Book:Artemis fowl: the Arctic incident Source: Artemis fowl: the Arctic incident