To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.
When you grow up looking at Superman, Batman, and all those superheroes, you take it for granted that is what superheroes are supposed to be. So then, when I see art books at the library, and I'm seeing Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo and Rembrandt, I think that's what artists look like.
When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the science insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Two hundred years from now, when you ask what are the great things that came from this era, I think it's going to be an understanding of the universe around us.
Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
Life is short, the art long.
The art is long, life is short.
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.
When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works. You don't fact check Monet's 'Water Lilies.' That's not what water lilies look like; that's what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feel like. That's the goal of the piece.
I love Monet: his 'Water Lilies' would look great on my wall. But would I prefer to see money helping kids get better from cancer rather than spending it on a work of art for my own personal indulgence? Yes, I probably would.
There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?
What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.
