Art Quotes
I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art. And I feel I was chosen as an instrument to just give music and love and harmony to the world. To children of all ages, and adults and teenagers.... I love people of all races from my heart, with true affection.
I love to draw pencil, ink pen. I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany, or England, you know those huge paintings? I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.
Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.
It's my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album's price point is. I hope they don't underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.
But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art.
The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.
All artists experience a lull in their work. It is a period of replenishing the soil - of plowing in and turning under our past experiences and watering them afresh with new ones.
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
[Talkies] are spoiling the oldest art in the world - the art of pantomime. They are ruining the great beauty of silence.
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.
Until they throw the money changers out of the temple of art, it will never be a real temple.
Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.
A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist.
Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.
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