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After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.
Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.
One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.
These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.
Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.
An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.
Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.
A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.
Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
Electronic music is innately tied to the technology used to create it - as the tools evolve, so will the art.
Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.
Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.
Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.
I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.
If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.
L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
Just get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies, and just draw a picture of me saying, I apologize.
To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.
Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.
When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.
There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.
On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.
We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.
You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.
I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.
Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.
Art that I like the most is born out of free association. I try to let my mind open up and see what comes out.
So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.
Article Five: If you have no reason or ability to accomplish anything, then just practice the art of becoming.
A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defense is made to neutralize aggression.
Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.
As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.
An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.