Quotes About Experience

I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

Ultimately I want my metal in a bar and not an art gallery.

To know how to live is my trade and my art.

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

With ticket prices, do you ask yourself, why I'm paying $70 to see the arts? You say, "No, that's what the symphony is costing me."

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts.

You say your image is new, but it looks well tested.

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.

Music is an immediate art; it's always happening right now.

Sometimes, I even learn new techniques from my students. Although I am still a student at the Art Institute, I think that I have learnt a lot from the classes that I have already taken.

Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss.

Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.