Art Quotes - Page 454

When you're actually making a film, it's just people on your back all the time wanting stuff and you're constantly having to it deal with them. It's probably the most time consuming of all the arts, but I do love it because it is a great mix of visual art and music and writing.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Attack where he is unprepared; sally forth when he does not expect you.

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.

I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist and to avoid indulging in my misery, or to come off as an exhibitionist. I don't want to make the listener complicit in my vulnerable prose poem of depression, I just want to honor the experience. I'm not the victim here, and I'm not seeking other peoples' sympathy. I don't blame my parents, they did the best they could.

Torres was easily the best player I have ever played with in my career. I loved him. And when he approached me and said he wanted out, it was like a knife to the heart.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil.

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.

A compassionate heart still feels anger, greed, jealousy, and other such emotions. But it accepts them for what they are with equanimity, and cultivates the strength of mind to let them arise and pass without identifying with or acting upon them.

Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking of self comforts, conveniences, freedoms, luxuries, or ease. Sometimes the ceaseless pin pricking of an unhappy, discontented, and selfish spouse can finally add up to serious physical violence. Sometimes people are goaded to the point where they erringly feel justified in doing the things that are so wrong. Nothing of course justifies sin.

The open heart sees, feels and absorbs the beauty of the world.

The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

I'm really interested in social justice, and if an artist has a certain power of being heard and voicing something important, it's right to do it. It could still be done in such a way that it's not aggressive or overly didactic. I'm trying to find that form.

Music is the language of the heart without words.

Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.

My heart is a protest that I let rally against my ribs.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.