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Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean.
Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously.
If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away.
See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.
Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.
When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.
Nothing is more harmful to the world than a martial art that is not effective in actual self-defense.
One who has few must prepare against the enemy; one who has many makes the enemy prepare against him.
The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.
You can help me by advancing equality, supporting arts and education, and saving this goddamn planet.
I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people.
It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic.
The most important are the eyes. In a fight if you look down out of fear you'll certainly be defeated
Seeing is an experience. People, not their eyes, see. There is more to seeing than meets the eyeball.
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.
Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.
... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!
Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.
My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.
There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.
A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.
Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground.
Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.
I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.
No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.
You beefed cause you heard that I was cursing in my raps, 86, still you wanna run and get the straps.
Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.
Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help
Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.