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Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.
They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.
Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.
You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
You have to be able to use it [art] to effect change in the community. That's what gives the film and the music an impactful legacy.
Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.
There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.
Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.
There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.
Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.
All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.
Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What does thou with thy best apparel on?
The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.
I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.
Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer.
People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.
Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.
I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.
The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.
To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.
For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours.
But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.
the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts.
Méret's Oppenheim art was aesthetically beautiful. Drinking champagne and eating a cherry off some tits, this is no big deal really.
We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.
The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.
I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.
There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.
You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more people are creating than ever before.
In our world, love, sex, music, and dance are all integrated into one experience. Love, and the arts of music and dance go together.
When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.
Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for both.
It´s time we saw sex as the truly sacred art that it is. A deep meditation, a holy communion and a dance with the force of creation.
I was, like, a history major, and I minored in art and Spanish, but I found myself gravitating toward media studies as time went on.