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There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.
I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.
The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.
The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.
It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.
The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.
Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.
Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.
Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.
Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.
The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.
I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God.
Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)
We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.
Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.
Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.
Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.
Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.
I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer.
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.
Art changed my life. I mean, I would say art saved me. I believe that it made me better at handling my life.
The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?
Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand
I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.
Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
A lot of people want to keep country music in the minority of people. But it belongs to the world. It's art.
We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words
A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.
Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.
In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.
Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.
Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.
If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.