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A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.
Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.
The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.
Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.
Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.
I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.
If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.
If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.
Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.
Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for souls
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.
[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.
When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?
Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.
To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound
Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.
If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer
The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.
I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.
Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.
I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.
It's the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts.
I get to cry to Barbara Walters, when things don't go my way. I'll get community service no matter which laws I break.
Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.
She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet away.
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
When it comes to my art work I would say that I am a perfectionist, although my sketchbook, and my process, is a mess.
No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.
I was always a performing arts kid in general - but I felt like my ultimate goal was to be an actress and be in films.
I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.
Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.
Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.
Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.
Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.