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In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
Anytime you have to sacrifice your art, or integrity, it's a bad deal, no matter what they're offering.
Art is a place for children to learn to trust their ideas, themselves, and to explore what is possible.
What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.
Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.
The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.
I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.
Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.
The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school.
It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.
The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.
I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show.
I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.
With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.
The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.
A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection
When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.
Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.
When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.
Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.
Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.
All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.
Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.
All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.