I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.
Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.
It is of no consequence whether a man of genius have learned either art or science before twenty-five: all that is necessary, or even desirable, is that his powers should be unfolded, his emulation roused, and his habits conducted into a right channel.
I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.
I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.
Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation.
Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.
Art means to dare - and to have been right.
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.
Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that we weren't told about: the moral police. No qualifications, no training, no understanding of actual morality, but they have a degree in the art of being offended.
