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The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake.
Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.
If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.
The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art.
It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.
I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart
Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.
Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.
Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
If you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace.
An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.
Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.
My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.
The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other.
Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.
[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.
Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.
Die Kunst ist ewig, ihre Formen wandeln sich. (The art is eternal, their shapes are changing.)
If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.
For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.
All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.
Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine.
In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.
I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.
Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.
A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.
The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.
When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.