Art is not journalism. In art, you don't make it to convey a message.
— Pawel Pawlikowski
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
— Paulo Coelho
Trash has given us an appetite for art.
— Pauline Kael
I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.
— Paula Cole
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
— Paul Valery
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
— Paul Theroux
The great thing about doing art shows is you get to meet the people who are interested in your art, and I think that when you're purchasing a piece of art it's a tremendous bonus to get to meet the artist because you get a chance to pick their brain a bit and find out first hand what the piece is about for the artist.
— Paul Stanley
Check out London, Manhattan, Aspen and East Hampton real estate prices, as well as high-end art prices, to see what the leading edge of hyperinflation could look like.
— Paul Singer
Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
— Paul Simon
In the West, we look at art through life. Well, that's one way of living. In the Orient they look at life through art. They even drink their tea without sugar, for the same reason that they don't like a lot of frilly decorations on a painting. I can't stand butter on my bread for the same reason. I'm allergic to goo and rococo.
— Paul Rand
Comedy is inherently subversive because it turns the normal reality on its head. The art form is all about these questions and contradictions. In comedy, we're dealing with language that we all understand, but words can have a dozen other things around them that alter or affect meaning.
— Paul Provenza
Andy was a nonverbal person; you couldn't get directions out of him. All he knew was what was modern in art was what wasn't art: The telephone was art, the pizza was art, but what was hanging on walls in museums wasn't art.
— Paul Morrissey
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
— Paul Klee
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
At its best, Aboriginal art has been effective in translating an entire culture and the understanding of an entire continent. Indeed, the more we interpret Australia through Aboriginal eyes, through the experience of their long and epic story, the more we allow ourselves to understand the land we share.
— Paul Keating
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
— Paul Hawken
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
— Paul Gauguin
Life is complicated, and art has the right to be complicated, too. I don't like films that simplify.
It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.
— Paula Abdul
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
— Paul Strand
Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once people saw pieces in my house, it became really clear that there was a great demand for my art.
It would be obvious for me to do conceptual art, and I think I've done it already with smashing bass guitars and whatever - I consider that as conceptual.
— Paul Simonon
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea.
I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.
— Paul Nurse
I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody... they didn't need him anymore. I freed a lot of comics... if I never would have done comedy, it would've been a different art form... I'm sure of it.
— Paul Mooney
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
Aboriginal art and culture draws from the land, for Aboriginality and the land are essential to each other and are inseparable.
The silver lining of those years when I was trying to get 'Tinkers' published but couldn't were the years when I had to decide, Why do I want to be a writer? I realized that writing is the thing itself; writing is not a means to publication, writing is not a predicate of publication, so I spent years making art for art's sake.
— Paul Harding
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
What I love most is the art, is making art, acting and being on set, and being a part of the process of making a movie.
— Paula Patton
Movies are not an art form where you get to kind of sit in your art gallery and paint, you know? You don't do that. You're spending a lot of somebody else's money.
— Paul W. S. Anderson
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
I think that ultimately - as I say to most of the people who are acquiring art - I can tell you my reality of a piece, but ultimately what's more important will be yours. I can tell you what a piece means to me, but just as valid if not more is what it means to you.
There's a real art to telling a story in two hours, and that will always be something that people are very, very interested in.
— Paul Sparks
I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.
Economics is not an exact science. It's a combination of an art and elements of science. And that's almost the first and last lesson to be learned about economics: that in my judgment, we are not converging toward exactitude, but we're improving our data bases and our ways of reasoning about them.
— Paul Samuelson
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.
— Paul Muni
Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.
— Paul Mellon
One eye sees, the other feels.
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
Before I was ever a baker, I was a teacher. Or, at least, that is what I thought I was going to be. After O-levels, I went to art school in Wallasey on the Wirral, and my mate Cavan and I did a teacher training course.
— Paul Hollywood
Being a fan of pop music and rock bands, I am a reluctant convert into the art of instrumental rock music.
— Paul Gilbert
