Quotes About Experience

Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.

My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body.

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Movement is knowledge. Art is perception

If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.

Do you write novels?" I said."Novels, Lord no, " she said. "I can't even stay married.

It is not about the glory of the human form more about being human.

Your first 10, 000 photographs are your worst.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living

The inner drama is the meaning of the exterior event.

cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an event

Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.

Every second in the air in Paris is art.

It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.

Each of our five senses contains an art.

When the world asks "what was it like?" Only the photographer can say "See!

The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home.

The photographer does the world a great disservice when she leaves her camera at home.

Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life's experience.