Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning

I'm as good as Jean-Claude Van Damme when it comes to martial arts. Sounding a little cocky aren't I

I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience

Without art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.

So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.

I feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does.

Students of any art, including Karate-do must never forget the cultivation of the mind and the body.

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

I love art. I used to have a painting of Mikhail Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings.

Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.

My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

As far as I'm concerned, there is no line between high art and pop art, and there should be no line.

You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance

I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.

Patience and tranquility of mind contribute more to cure our distempers as the whole art of medicine

Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm

Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

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