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I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive.
The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.
The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.
I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought Id regret it if I didnt act.
Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.
A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge.
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love.
I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.
The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics
Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.
Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.
The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
I’ve always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it’s in daily life or in art.
I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.
Words matter, and the right words matter most of all. In the end they're all that remain of us.
My art is different than yours; it consists not in defeating others, but in not being defeated.
A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.
I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.
The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.
Art must touch our lives, our fears and cares – evoke our dreams and give hope to the darkness.
One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.
In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.
The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.
I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.
I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.
Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet
It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.
Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.
Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.
Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.