Quotes About Art

Poetry proper is never merely a higher mode (melos) of everyday language. It is rather the reverse: everyday language is a forgotten and therefore used-up poem, from which there hardly resounds a call any longer. Martin Heidegger, 'Language

Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

Masters in all branches of art must first be masters in living, for the soul creates everything.

Art is the expression of the self; the more complicated and restrictive a method is, the lesser the opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

Artistic skill, therefore, does not mean artistic perfection. It remains rather a continuing medium or reflection of some step in psychic development, the perfection of which is not to be found in shape and form, but must radiate from the human soul.

With all the training thrown to the wind, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere, anybody knows where, the art of Jeet Kune Do attains its perfection.

Imitate. Don't be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

What I liked most was that George had class, the way he walked and talked, reading Shakespeare and all those books. He knew about van Gogh and Picasso, he gave me a book about Dali. And just the way he conducted himself, you could see it. He was very elegant in his manners.

Talking about music is like talking about sex. Can you describe it? Are you supposed to?

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

At the end of the day, life trumps art... always.

No one you have been and no place you have gone ever leaves you. The new parts of you simply jump in the car and go along for the rest of the ride. The success of your journey and your destination all depend on who's driving. I'd seen other great musicians lose their way and watch their music and art become anemic, rootless, displaced when they seemed to lose touch with who they were. My music would be a music of identity, a search for meaning and the future.

We all have some emptiness in our lives, an emptiness that some fill with art, some with God, some with learning. I have always filled the emptiness with drugs. Because

One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.

One of the great beauties of politicians as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.

Say it clearly and you make it beautiful no matter what.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.