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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
[A persons] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.
Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.
In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry
When defeated ask yourself what mistakes invited the attack. This kind of positive thinking any fighter must possess.
Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.
Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.
When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts.
There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.
The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
Music is one of those art forms that you can get pretty immediate feedback by just doing it and getting better at it.
I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.
The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation.
I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.
The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.
Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.
Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts.
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
The art market does represent a sort of hyper-capitalism: it produces added value without any actual work being done.
I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art program.
Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of ten times.
I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.
Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.
The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.
Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.
Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.
I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.
Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme -- I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.
We always wish for money, we always wish for fame. We think we have the answers, some things ain't never gonna change.
As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.
To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial.
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.
He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.
There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun.
The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.
Looking at himself, but wishing he was someone else. Because the posters on the wall, they don't look like him at all.