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You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.
I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.
We're not choosing the art, the art is choosing us. The pieces are choosing the walls where they hang.
I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.
For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality.
Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp
Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.
People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.
Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.
One of the main causes of our artistic decline lies beyond doubt in the separation of art and science.
The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.
Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.
You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.
I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.
You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.
I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?
Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.
A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.
I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
I call my style, "Poetry in Motion." So I'm working on a new art to make fighting even more beautiful.
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.
But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.
Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.
Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.
The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.
Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
One becomes a beginner after 1000 days of training. One becomes a master after 10,000 days of practice.
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.
Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.
Art is the more spiritual side of education that really does saves lives and makes amazing individuals.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.