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In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.
Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.
With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.
A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.
Loving the Om (AUM) is loving yourself, your own Self. Om chanting is a creative art, not just mechanical repetition of a word.
[Phil Wood] knew about wine. He knew about food. He knew about art. He knew about classical music. He was interested in things.
I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.
The importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art.
After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.
Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.
There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.
In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.
A richer present I design, A finished form, of work divine, Surpassing all the power of art; A thinking head, a grateful heart.
The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives
I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.
I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.
The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.
There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms.
We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.
He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.
It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not.
My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my life rich.
. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
I can fall in and out of love, have marriages that barely last a month. When they go down the drain, I'll blame it on the fame.
Perspective is an Art Mathematical which demonstrates the manner and properties of all radiations direct, broken and reflected.
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
I love every aspect of the performing arts and can't imagine myself doing anything different. I give my heart to every project.
When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense.
All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.
I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.
All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.
Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.
In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.
Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your own destination.
I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.