Quotes About Art

Technology like art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

This is the Mona Lisa of bad diners.

Banks listed the conventional-wisdom explanations for the Renaissance: Prosperity, which provided money and markets to support art Peace, which provided the stability to seek artistic and philosophical progress Freedom, which liberated artists from state or religious control Social mobility, which allowed talented poor people to enter the arts The paradigm thing, which brought new perspectives and mediums that created a wave of originality and expression.

master coaching is something more evanescent: more art than science. It exists in the space between two people, in the warm, messy game of language, gesture, and expression.

I always wanted to make movies.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film-you give over your life In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.

In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.

Pitches that rhyme are more sublime.

The less evidence of extrinsic motivation during art school, the more success in professional art both several years after graduation and nearly twenty years later.

Mini-sagas are extremely short stories—just fifty words long…no more, no less.

was trying to solve a problem: How can I produce a good drawing? The second was trying to find a problem: What good drawing can I produce

The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization BY PETER M. SENGE

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles BY STEVEN PRESSFIELD   Pressfield's

right hemisphere is responsible for our ability to comprehend metaphors

Not always, but a lot of the time, when you are doing a piece for someone else it becomes more "work" than joy. When I work for myself there is the pure joy of creating and I can work through the night and not even know it. On a commissioned piece you have to check yourself—be careful to do what the client wants.

Meantime, British organizations such as the London Business School and the Yorkshire Water Company have established artist-in-residence programs.

The other study examined the effect of awe. Awe lives "in the upper reaches of pleasure and on the boundary of fear," as two scholars put it. It "is a little studied emotion . . . central to the experience of religion, politics, nature, and art."19 It has two key attributes: vastness (the experience of something larger than ourselves) and accommodation (the vastness forces us to adjust our mental structures).

BMW's Chris Bangle says, "We don't make 'automobiles.'" BMW makes "moving works of art that express the driver's love of quality.

The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business—all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).

But one mystery has not been solved: the mystery of the human brain and how it gives rise to thoughts and feelings, hopes and desires, love, and the experience of beauty, not to mention dance, visual art, literature, and music.

Throughout most of the world and for most of human history, music making was as natural an activity as breathing and walking, and everyone participated. Concert halls, dedicated to the performance of music, arose only in the last several centuries.