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I think competition in any kind of activity like music, art, literature - anything that's not done with a timer - is actually impossible. So, in effect, what you're doing is you're entering the lottery. You're hoping that you play well (and that) you play your best on the day that you're heard, and you're hoping that the people who are judging will like what you do.

The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art.

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge in their art. It's a lot easier to listen to Barry Manilow murder what are actually good songs from the '50s than to consider what [left-leaning songwriter] Steve Earle has to say.

Art is not so much talent as character… it's what you are, the qualities of the person.

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

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

Everything I do is the environment.

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.

I have not attempted to try to relive or recreate the past; but I have sought guidance from those timeless elements in the past which remain valid and vital to the future ... The purpose of my art is to seek beauty and truth, and to explore and glorify the human being and the universe.

Art must touch our lives, our fears and cares – evoke our dreams and give hope to the darkness.

In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and succeeds with consummate authority. . . . In Scott's incisive blend of art history, sociology, and sports writing, he makes a daring and original statement about fighters and the artists who enshrined them.

Where the perhapses are found something has to be done about it and since art deals in the perhapses & maybe sos why not call it the consummate science — which gets its perfection from seeming imperfection.

The great moral question of the twenty-first century is this: if all knowledge, all culture, all art, all useful information can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone; if everyone can have everything, anywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone?

Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!

Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.

There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.

My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.

Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?