Quotes About Experience

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.

I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience

All art is autobiographical.

Live your Art. Don't think about it.

Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment

People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.

Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.

Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are like signposts in the search for the past.

Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.

Whatever art is, it is no longer something primarily to be looked at. Stared at, perhaps, but not primarily looked at

Art is basically entertainment.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Did you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real?

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.