I think if something’s emotionally real – and I’m not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life – you can’t really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently. – Spike Jonze
I spend all day replying to tweets and reblogging posts and sharing fan art. I think it’s the most important thing I can possibly do, to stay involved in the community as a part of the community, not ahead of the community. I’m very much the same level of them in it. – Tyler Oakley
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it’s our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are. – Wynton Marsalis
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. – Walter Pater
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. – Sol LeWitt
Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor. – Steve Tisch
Composing for movies is not an easy job – its a different art altogether, and moreover, I don’t want to get involved in too many things at one time and want to concentrate on my shows and albums. – Sivamani
Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools. – Tony Buzan
My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo. – Walter Mosley
Only once in the last thirty years have I made a duplicate, and that was a watercolor from my oil picture now owned by the Layton Art Gallery, Milwaukee, called ‘Hark! the Lark.’ – Winslow Homer
My philosophy is that I’m an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes. – Steve Prefontaine
For me it’s very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There’s London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, ‘Wow!’ – Victor Pinchuk
I know as a director I hit it out of the park sometimes, and sometimes we haven’t, and that’s kind of the way art goes. You just have to be willing to take the ‘failures’ and learn from them, make the best of them. – Tim Story
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. – Tom Wolfe
I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense. – Siri Hustvedt
With out art, without communicating, we wouldn’t live beyond 30 because we’d be so sad and depressed. – Wayne Coyne
As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice. – Tony Kushner
If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world. – Sri Chinmoy
I was a Fine Art major. You do a bit of everything until the final year, when you specialise. I did pencil drawing and sculpture. It’s a pretty well-rounded fine art education. I thought that it was viable option to make a living out of art. I’m not sure if I was thinking realistically; maybe I never was. But it had great appeal. – Timothy Olyphant
I don’t like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who’s heavily involved in contemporary art, they’d say the same thing. If you go to a biennale, you don’t expect to like much of it. – Tom Rachman
I’m into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment – like music, literature, and art. – Zaha Hadid
I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it’s unrealistic. – Sia Furler
Real art has been… what’s the word? Kidnapped? No, that’s not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business. – Vivienne Westwood
Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation’s picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man’s only lasting monument. – William Morris Hunt
What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view. – Ursus Wehrli
The first thing I learned in boxing is to not get hit. That’s the art of boxing. Execute your opponent without getting hit. In sports school, we were putting our hands behind our backs and having to defend ourselves with our shoulders, by rolling, by moving round the ring, moving out feet. – Wladimir Klitschko