arts

"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

"To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace."

"Finnick?"I say, "Maybe some pants?"He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this"-- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?"I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell"

"Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art."

"'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being."

"An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will."

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."

"Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance."

"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."

"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."

"Life is not an exact science, it is an art."

"That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind."

"With an apple I will astonish Paris."

"As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything."

"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."

"It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception."

"Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."

"Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative."

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."