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Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.
I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does.
I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.
There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.
Jesus, Thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love Thou art; Visit us with Thy salvation, enter every trembling heart.
As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.
Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.
All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.
The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.
I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.
Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.
That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.
Be encouraged to be an encourager. It's a spiritual art that everyone can learn. And mostly you learn by practicing it.
The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.
The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray.
In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.
Desire is the motivating force behind all progress and advancement in science, art, industry and in all phases of life.
Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.
My parents never prevented me from doing anything, but they didn't have the knowledge of the arts that Mrs. Ranger had.
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
To help others to develop and succeed in life is a reward itself and only has value when nothing is expected in return.
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.
I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.
When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.
I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.
The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.
This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.
When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.
I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as possible.
A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.
Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.
Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.
Actually, I tossed it nicely, landed nicely, like airplane. No warning, beautiful. That's the art of throwing racquets.
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.
There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.
I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.
Animation should be an art…what you fellows have done with it, making it into a trade…not an art, but a trade…bad luck.
Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.