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Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.
Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating.
In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.
I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.
I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things.
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.
Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.
Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist.
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?
Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.
I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.
I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.
The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.
The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.
Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.
I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.
All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.
Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I’ll never master that.
M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.
Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
All gradients of reality, all existential distinctions, have finally been annihilated.
I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.
The ideal in Martial Arts is humanitarianism. Accomplishment uses diligence as a goal.
There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.