For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.
I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.