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If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.
I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.
Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.
No command of art, No toil, can help you hear; Earth's minstrelsy falls clear But on the listening heart.
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.
What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.
there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.
I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.
The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.
Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing.
Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.
It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.
To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.
Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.
Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
If there's any literary ability in a feller, getting fired out of a good government job will bring it out.
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
There should be a harmonious blend of religion, philosophy and art for man to live healthily in the world.
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.
Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.
I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors.
Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.
Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.
You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.