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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.
I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.
Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.
The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.
The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?
The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.
Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.
The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.
Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.
I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.
I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.
Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation
Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.
My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books.
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.
I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.
There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.
I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.
Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.
The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer.
Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.
You have to challenge people to reconsider what is art, what is taste. Because it's someone's point-of-view.
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.
I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art
Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".
One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.
The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.
There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.
Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.
So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.