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Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.
The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.
Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.
The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.
Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.
We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world
It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?
I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
I think art is, unfortunately, sometimes our only shot at communicating our indignation safely and effectively.
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
Between my music, my art, and my wrestling - and having the Hardy girls and a great wife - my life is complete.
Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
Video games have become this really weird medium where it's not quite mainstream but it's not quite art either.
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.
Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.
Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.
No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries.
God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth
All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.
Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.
It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.
Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.