Art - Quotes
The teacher`s highest art is to awaken his pupil to the pleasure of creation and recognition.
They teach you there`s a boundary line to music. But man, there`s no boundary line to art.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
You know how there`s time-based art? Movies, music, plays, it`s all time-based art. There`s a beginning, and a middle and an end. You have to see it from the beginning to the end. You`re restrained to that timeline... That way of experiencing it. But then there`s paintings. No beginning, no middle, no end. You see what you want to see when you want to see it. No restrictions, it`s just there.
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
Good art speaks for itself. That doesn’t mean you have to like it. So the next time you go to an art show, or look at anything for that matter, observe what effect it has on you and try to form your own opinion. That way you become the critic and not a mouthpiece for someone else’s opinions.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
The rapidly advancing changes to healthcare pose a serious threat to the human touch, the so-called art of medicine. This we cannot let happen. People have an innate propensity to interact with one another; therefore we need empathy and intimate words from our caregivers when we’re ill and vulnerable.
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.