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There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.
I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.
A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.
I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.
The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose
Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.
Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.
But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.
Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.
Art is not so much talent as character… it's what you are, the qualities of the person.
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.
I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.
The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.
It is not the number of Kata you know, but the SUBSTANCE of the Kata you have acquired.
You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?
Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.
In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.
Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?
The 2 master skills of life are: The Science of Achievement and The Art of Fulfillment.
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough.
Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.
The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.
Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.