3 December 2020 Art Blakey Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that’s it. No America, no jazz. I’ve seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn’t have a damn thing to do with Africa.
3 December 2020 William Osler There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
3 December 2020 Octavio Paz Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game.
3 December 2020 Jeanette Winterson Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
3 December 2020 Henri Cartier-Bresson To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
3 December 2020 Isadora Duncan It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
3 December 2020 Keanu Reeves The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
3 December 2020 Mos Def Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can’t articulate.
3 December 2020 Valentino Rossi Riding a race bike is an art – a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
3 December 2020 Madeleine L'Engle I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.
