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Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.
Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality
Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.
In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.
I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks.
Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.
Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.
The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.
Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.
Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.
Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.
Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.
We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.
Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not
I was always more of a film guy than an athlete guy. I had an art scholarship at Western.
Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.
I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.
[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast.
Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.
O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.
Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry.
Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.
Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.
I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.
For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.
Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.
Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.
Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.
Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.