“Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.”
Quotes about art
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“Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.”
“My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.”
“In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.”
“Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.”
“The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.”
“To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.”
“Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.”
“The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.”
“Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.”
“I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.”
“What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.”
“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”
“Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.”
“I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'”
“The work of art is a scream of freedom.”
“I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.”