Quotes About Experience

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.

I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

I've learnt so much from every film and every director - a new perspective, a greater appreciation of the art.

A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.

You are only a young talent, but we don't know how old your soul is.

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.