Quotes About Experience

Language is the art of experience

You can not teach art, it's not to be taught, but felt and lived, or else it is naught.

My personal philosophy is that you do art to experience emotion that you don't have the luxury of experiencing in real life.

For me, art that's alive and urgent is about what it is to be a human being.

When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.

There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching.

Abstract is a journey through both my mind and my past.

To come up with one great sentence, one needs to serve a life sentence.

I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.

I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school.

There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.

Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

No matter how good or experienced, he [Sehwag] can kill your attitude.

Attitude is the difference between ordeal and adventure

What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things.

These younger doctors are the immediate interface with clinical medicine for the students. The students trail their interns and residents every waking minute and absorb from them how medicine is done—how it is spoken, thought, written, performed, attired, and equipped.

This was real life, not a book. And in real life, people met, nothing happened, and you went home. Or they went o? to Egypt and told you that they weren't a commitment kind of guy after six years. That was real life. Not a guy like Marc. Or the marquis.

you should never prepare for old age, just let it happen and deal with it when it does.

when I'm sad over what I lost, I often find that things look better in the rearview mirror than they really were