The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous a….

It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle..

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or mu….

Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communic….

An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you..

Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of our genetic makeup th….

Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do is political, even if it's ….

I am unable to rule anything out..

Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin..

I found so much fun in the light shows and the multimedia shows of the hippies. That was when I was a student in the 1960s, and I was in New York, so….

I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was….

Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art..

When you are in love with a man or a woman, the love you feel does not come from him or her; it is the love flowing from you own heart that you feel.….

All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which to agree . . . or outright oppose . . . for N….

I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beaut….

When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think that was how I started doing pos….

My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art..

The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of….

Art makes people do a double take and then, if they're looking at the picture, maybe they'll read the text under it that says, "Come to Union Square,….

Karate-do is definitely a martial way, and its identity lies in do or principles. Any martial art without proper training of the mind turns into beas….

It seems like the big difference between good art and so-so art lies somewhere in the art's heart's purpose, the agenda of the consciousness behind t….