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Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses
It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.
People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.
Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.
The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.
Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.
Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.
Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.
I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.
A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.
Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.
The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.
The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.
I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.
The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.
The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.
At dances when I was a little kid, Art would be up there singing while I'd be dancing with some girl a foot taller than me.
Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.
I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.
Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.
The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.
Burlesque is beautiful: It's art, it's fun, it's done with a lot of comedy - an awful lot of big wink-wink and nudge-nudge.
Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.
Fashion should go back to what it should be: closer to art, not totally commercial but have some artistic value at its core.
With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.
Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.
You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...
And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.