Quotes About Experience

Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go there to find that out.

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.

I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.

Art is a hot soup in this cold world!

Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

Art is an artificial organization of experience.

If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean that's what the best art is supposed to do.

Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.

What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.

I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.