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I have always been a nomad and I have mastered the art of packing! I always say: pack lightly, live lightly.
Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor? [Lat., Cur quaeris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?]
On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play.
I was always interested in dance as a creative art and traditionally dance is taught as an interpretive art.
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.
For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is most important to me!
Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.
Wrestling is an art form. I don't worry about those who don't get it; I worry about satisfying those who do.
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.
Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.
Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.
Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.
Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.
You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss.
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that.
A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable
I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.
Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.
The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.
An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.
I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.
In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.
It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate.
I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.
Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose.
When you do Jiu Jitsu, you won't look at a bigger guy and say 'oh no', you'll look and say 'how interesting!'
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.
They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is 'too much.
Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.
I tend to keep my mind open to the different forms of art out there and I am always willing to try new stuff.
Art as language....in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love.