I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.
It has been an honor to paint on stage and have my art grace the albums and stage sets of renowned musicians.
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
I couldn't really say that a repressive society would result in creative art. But somehow it does help, it is an ingredient, it acts as a Catalyst to a man who is committed.
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
I'm not a culture snob. So while, of course, I think the Mozart 'Requiem' or, say, Beethoven's 'Ninth' are some of the greatest works of art in the history of humankind, that's not to say the Beatles or Queen or Simon and Garfunkel aren't brilliant, beautiful, important works of art that should be sung without a sense of irony.
Human requirements are the inspiration for art.
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.
I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.
Resolve and thou art free.
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
In each medium - popular music, literature, and visual art, respectively - the woman has broken form, shed a skin, with each phase of her career, whereas the man has returned to ever-deepening iterations of the sound or sentence or imagery with which he began.
The Documents Project has actively collected documentation on both island-based Puerto Rican art as well as Nuyorican art in the United States through partnerships and researchers ceded at the University of Puerto Rico's museum in San Juan and Hunter College's Center for Puerto Rican Studies in New York City, respectively.
