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The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.
An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.
Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.
I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.
Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.
MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.
I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.
Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.
I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important.
A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.
The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.
Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.
Foster and polish the warrior spirit while serving in the world; illuminate the path according to your inner light.
The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.
The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
My opinion of art is that a man should have love for it, because my idea is that he paints from his heart and mind.
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.
Being a head designer or art director or just even a designer, you need a certain level of experience and maturity.
Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.
It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.
Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.
biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.
It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.
The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.
Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.
Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.
Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video.
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.
If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.
The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."
I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.
If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.
The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.
God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.