I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
There have been times when I'm writing about things that are personally embarrassing. Like any human being, sometimes I can't help but wonder - 'What are the people I know going to think about this?' So I have to remind myself that all is permissible. Art has to be a free space. Language has to be a free space.
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
The essential argument in the book, 'Art as Therapy,' is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it's easy to forget the confusion that persists about what it's really for.
Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role.
The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.
What I really like about Woody Allen's films is that there's a real investment in personal relationships. There is the idea that this is a serious concern worth making serious art about - how we love other people and how we can negotiate our relationships with them.
Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
I think that there are artists of different genres whose calling is to use their art to hope to affect and better the human condition - whether it's System of a Down, or Rage Against the Machine, or Public Enemy, or the Clash, Bruce Springsteen, or Pete Seeger. It's a group that I'm proud to be counted among.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels.
The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
The problem with doing physically ambitious art is that to view it, you still have to be in your physical body.
The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.
