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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.
Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?
If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.
Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?
Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.
The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.
The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.
The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.
I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it.
The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong.
In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water.
I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.
I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.
The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.
Can art change the world? Maybe ... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?
I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large.
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.
The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.
I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.
I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.
Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.
In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
Tactics is the art of using troops in battle; strategy is the art of using battles to win the war
I endeavor to trigger positive, empowering, life-giving emotion - I believe art is that powerful.
I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.
Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.
As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.
Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.
Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.
What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.
My whole staff love to laugh and count the money. On the couch, hands in our pants like Al Bundy.