Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'
Takashi Murakami
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think... ROY LICHTENSTEIN The dominant theories of elite art and criticism in the 20th century grew out of a militant denial o... STEVEN PINKER A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic ... Q-TIP I've been fascinated by the world ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bo... JON FAVREAU People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste ... SHIGERU MIYAMOTO I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for mode... LARRY ELLISON There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is... MAO ZEDONG Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA The Japanese have a word for it.
It's Judo -- the art of conquering by yielding.
The Western equival... J. P. MCEVOY They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation... RAY BRADBURY Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An ... MARCEL PROUST Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mou... E. B. WHITE For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures ar... GORE VIDAL To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ROBERT SCHUMANN One day the world will look upon research
on animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.
... LEONARDO DAVINCI Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, i... A. ALVAREZ Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. JOHN LECARRE Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it le... ERICA JONG I have been no more than a medium, as it were. HENRI MATISSE The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel... ALEXANDER ELIOT Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Sco... MELVIN MADDOCKS Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath. OSCAR LEVANT The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. ... MARIA LENHART Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior amo... CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT From the shore.. one looks
upward to the sanddune grass..
10,000
green brushes attempting
where the... SAIOM SHRIVER Anyone who contributes to the defense fund
of pornographers is a mental moonbeam. MIKE ROYKO Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. EDWARD STEICHEN You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a p... EDWARD STEICHEN I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy. OSCAR LEVANT There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. ANSEL ADAMS An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. PAUL VALERY Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. AMBROSE BIERCE When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his li... G. K. CHESTERTON Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. HENRI MATISSE I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting. ROY LICHTENSTEIN Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. AL CAPP Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. TWYLA THARP I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass i... CLAES OLDENBURG Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. MARIE LAURENCIN Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. ANDRE GIDE The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the da... CYRIL CONNOLLY Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Give me a museum and I'll fill it. PABLO PICASSO I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true ge... BECK Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in... ANDREA DWORKIN Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. ANDY WARHOL An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reaso... ANDY WARHOL I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession,... BARBRA STREISAND The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performanc... ANSEL ADAMS You don't take a photograph, you make it. ANSEL ADAMS When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when... ARTHUR FELLIG The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has inc... PAUL GAUGUIN For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. GEORGES ROUAULT A great artist is always before his time or behind it. GEORGE MOORE I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt li... IGOR STRAVINSKY Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art. JAMES BAILEY Of all lies, art is the least untrue. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around. HUGH CASSON The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones an... HENRY MITCHELL The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the o... HENRY MILLE The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only a... GRACE GLUECK The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what d... JOHN UPDIKE The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. A... KENNETH TYNAN Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. DAWN FRENCH The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. DAVID HOCKNEY Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. FRANCOIS CAVANNA That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records mor... EDWARD GORDON CRAIG The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy ... DONAL HENAHAN When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not becaus... CHRISTIAN CARDELL CORBET I didn't have any interest in traditional art. CINDY SHERMAN Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art... PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet awa... PAUL STRAND Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words. NAPOLEON Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. WYNETKA ANN REYNOLDS Write. Don't think. Relax. RAY BRADBURY Colors that blend with the brick and the dark waters of the city's canals - greens, browns and the s... VICKY ELLIOTT What is art but a way of seeing?. THOMAS BERGER My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will ... PABLO PICASSO Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me... M. C. ESCHER I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It r... SARAH BRIGHTMAN I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they w... BRIAN ENO People are intrigued by things that are a work of art. I think they (the daggers) are works of art. BARRY WATSON Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships. MARTY RUBIN Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great i... DAVID FOSTER In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking peo... GLEN HANSARD I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego. LOU REED A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and M... HANS HAACKE Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good... EZRA POUND People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in... CARLISLE FLOYD The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it differe... LESLIE FIEDLER We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is lik... CLIVE BELL The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think ... LARRY GAGOSIAN Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films ... ROGER CORMAN By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound... ANGELUS SILESIUS Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life... MARGARET FULLER Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where... CHRIS PRENTISS A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains... CHRIS PRENTISS The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there," inside you, waiting to be discove... CHRIS PRENTISS
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Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke fr... HARUKI MURAKAMI Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means... HARUKI MURAKAMI There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart. HARUKI MURAKAMI Hajime," she began, "the sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once they start going for... HARUKI MURAKAMI We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpec... HARUKI MURAKAMI Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless. HARUKI MURAKAMI No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant. HARUKI MURAKAMI Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body fallin... HARUKI MURAKAMI She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But... HARUKI MURAKAMI sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get o... HARUKI MURAKAMI Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate... HARUKI MURAKAMI I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, gra... HARUKI MURAKAMI Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly... HARUKI MURAKAMI Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't kee... HARUKI MURAKAMI But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain. HARUKI MURAKAMI Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in scho... HARUKI MURAKAMI Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a... HARUKI MURAKAMI If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I... HARUKI MURAKAMI The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m... HARUKI MURAKAMI I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things... HARUKI MURAKAMI Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana ? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin... HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. HARUKI MURAKAMI You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get. HARUKI MURAKAMI When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unh... HARUKI MURAKAMI George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don... HARUKI MURAKAMI You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes yo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at ... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets. HARUKI MURAKAMI These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say somethi... HARUKI MURAKAMI From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you. HARUKI MURAKAMI He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was... HARUKI MURAKAMI