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Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people.
Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.
To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.
This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.
Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art.
I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
The more you put yourself out there, the more there is for people to take exception with.
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
You make alterations, affecting your pose, a new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose.
Blow your brains out and do it right, make sure it's on prime time and on Saturday night.
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.
The artist always has been and still is a being somewhat apart from the rest of humanity.
fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.
Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.
My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.
I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.
Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.
He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.
Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.
The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.
If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.
True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.
The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch
Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.
When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.
In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.
But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!
only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.
...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.
The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.
Master the divine techniques of the Art of Peace and no enemy will dare to challenge you.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
Well, is it pornography or is it art? Well as far as I'm concerned, the Mona Lisa is art.
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.
This art of participating in happiness is one of the foundations if you want to be happy.