I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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.
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.
Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.
Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning – after all this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.
Sunday, November 08, 2026