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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.
Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.
If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
It's a collaborative art form where we can both learn something from the other. That's what you want from the relationship with a director.
A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized.
The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.
Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering.
The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through the 1950s.
There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate.
All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.
The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.
Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.
Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.
Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.
When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.
Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.
The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.
All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.
Speaking out and creating art that truly reflects the world we live in goes part of the way towards doing that. At least that's what I hope.
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium.
The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.
I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.
Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.
I love to draw, so I really want to go and study art. I've never done things for me. I've always done things for my career or for my family.
... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.
And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.
The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.
I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.
Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.
Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.
Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of art.
Art is so subjective--it means something different to every person. The important thing for it to do is to touch on the senses and emotions.