Art

Buying art is not understanding art.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.

Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

A supreme pragmatist, Kissinger was never interested in the art of the impossible - and nor, as a biographer, am I. That is why, having initially been invited to write his entire official biography, I eventually decided to devote myself to writing just one year in his life: 1973.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

I get to make art at my own pace. I get to think big and move slow. There's nothing better than that.

Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

I make video art pieces, take photographs, and dabble in acting ever since my screen test for 'Memoirs of a Geisha' with Steven Spielberg. But music is my first love and always will be my priority.

Art - the beautiful thing about art, from my standpoint, is that it has no discrimination.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?