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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.
Britain cannot compete with China or Taiwan on price; we compete on skills, on arts and culture.
We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.
I used to take culinary arts at Job Corps so I'm a certified chef. I could cook chicken alfredo.
In the middle of a perfect tranquillity, it is an art to imagine about the nightmares of storms!
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It's about mastering the art of letting go.
All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.
Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.
When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius.
Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history.
When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.
Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.
Time is very important to art and if you don't have the time to select, art goes out the window.
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.
The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.
To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary.
All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.
Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.
American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.
It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.
A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.
All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.
Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.
If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.
A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.
Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.
You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.