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Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?
... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of the crowd?
My work is a game, a very serious game.
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
Patience is the art of hoping.
Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.
Fear of failure and criticism can be crippling. Don't let others' negativity take away your joy.
Rap is still an art, and no-one's from the Old School Cuz rap is still a brand-new tool
At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.
Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.
By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.
For the nature of women is closely allied to art
Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light.
Things are beautiful if you love them.
Dance is about movement and can be an art, but it's also about communication - with yourself, as much as with other people.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.
Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they wanted to safeguard their freedom.
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
The greatest art is to sit, and wait, and let it come.
I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire
It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
The earth has music for those who listen.
Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.
The art of love is to embrace the world and that which lies beyond it.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.
Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home
