Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures..

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'..

Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think th….

Competition is the death of art..

The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete hu….

I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it's art or music or clothing or food and al….

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-develop….

Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought..

Faith engenders courage; and also requires it..

One of the points where the art world is at its most metaphysical is in this weird aspect of the power of the expert. There are experts who claim the….

People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment and pleasure, one ….

If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone..

Teaching is a performance art..

You just have to work really hard and throw everything into it. ... It's really hard to be an artist, and even if you do work really hard, there's no….

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms..

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated trad….

Chiropractic embraces the science of life, the knowledge of how organisms act in health and disease, and also the art of adjusting the neuroskeleton..

For me, art is always a kind of theater..

The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it also depends on interpretation. It'….

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things..

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people t….