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Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.
In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere
Whatever art is, it is no longer something primarily to be looked at. Stared at, perhaps, but not primarily looked at
As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.
When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.
The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!
I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice.
I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.
The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.
Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine
Imagination guides you in your contacts with individuals and crowds, so you can discover new concepts and approaches.
I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.
It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.
The art and act of writing - speaking just for myself - involves getting your proverbial ass in the proverbial chair.
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.
A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.
Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.
I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there.
Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.
I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.
Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to.
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.
The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.
The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.
Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.
Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.
The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.
The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.
Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.
In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.
There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.
Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.
A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.
The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.
I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world