I think musically.
Paint ideas, paint thought.
I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.
In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.
Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
The creative mind is restless.
He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.
Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.
But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.
I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises - of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive.
You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science and Art at their two extremes - say Pure Mathematics and Acting. Science as a rule deals with things, Art with man's thought and emotion about things.
Great thoughts ensure musical expression.
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.
It is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.
Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.
All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product
Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.
Art is a line around your thoughts.
Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.
We have always tried to treat every album differently and even from day one I think that each Asia album has been approached with care and thought and hopefully that shines through twenty years later.
