Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.
I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.
Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.
There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.