Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.
Interpretation
Art is about perception; it exists in your immediate environment and attitude rather than distant travels.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes that art is not a distant treasure to be found in far-off lands but rather something that should be recognized and appreciated in our daily lives and surroundings. If one fails to see the beauty and creativity at home, the search for art in other places becomes futile.
In practice
In a speech to students about recognizing local art and talent.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.
Compassion may be called the fundamental of all good art because it alone can tell you what other beings feel and experience. Only compassion severs the bonds of your personal limitations, and gives you deep access into the inner life of the character you study, without which you cannot properly prepare it for the stage
Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.
Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.
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