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I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more.
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.
People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.
I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
I would love to collect art at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.
I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.
You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.
There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.
The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there’s always the Kessler.
Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.
The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.
Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.
I've never really dreamed of owning a home. I don't think you go into the arts and also dream of owning a home.
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.
The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.
I love being creative, and for me it doesn't matter what it is - whether it's art or music or just daydreaming.
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.
The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.
When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
In randori we learn employ the principle of maximum efficiency even when we could easily overpower an opponent.
Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.
But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.
The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way
The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.
I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.
Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime.