Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content - driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart...
My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.
The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.
Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing I realize how...
In America, we know to ignore artists if they're serious in any way.
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my...
Action speaks louder than words, but if someone judged you by your tattoos, that means they are STUPID not to understand art and missed the meaning of art for art's sake.
Most critics, fond of subservient art still make the whole depend upon a part. They talk of principles, but notions prize And all to one loved folly sacrifice.
I know exactly what Einstein meant when he said, "Dancers are the athletes of God." You three look like angels. I can't wait to see you dancing in the Christmas concert.
An excellent photograph is the one which has excellently captured an excellent moment!
Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human.
We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn't discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists.
The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.
Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.
If we give Jesus what we have, what we give Him will never be less.
We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.
Art is a kind of magic. Creativity is mysterious, even to artists, who might be able to name their inspiration but can't always explain how their influences and experiences came together to create...
An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.
Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Music is for souls & hearts to dance & sing. Art is for expressing your visionary being. Words are tools for exploring & celebrating. Time is a pool to swim & dream & create in. Waste not one jot of...
Art has simple founding principles: Less is more, more or less; fill in the blanks with no filler.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...