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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.
Art is the daughter of freedom.
I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline, really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore, and that's no good. To make art you need to be inspired.
Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
Yoga is an art and science of living.
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.
I can concentrate on my art.
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.
Unlike film and TV, theater is a luxury object, but one that ordinary middle-class people can still afford. Above all, it isn't a mass medium: Live theater is a small-scale, handmade art form. Intimacy is what makes it special.
I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.
If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
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.
Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me.
Art is the only thing that can save me from my opinions about the world. I tend to get very worked up about what I see going on, and I feel, you know, impotent to make the kind of changes and the kind of difference that I would like to make.
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.
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!
