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Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.
I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.
Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.
The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.
Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.
Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability.
Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.
We are always in danger of rejecting the creational in name of the fall and of accepting the fallen in name of creation.
It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.
The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.
What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.
I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.
Mastering an art is like reaching the top of the passion mountain.... at the top the passion dies out! So keep learning.
Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.
A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.
There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.
Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?
We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light.
In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece.
It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.
Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.
Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
So, I'm not on a diet. I'm on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness.
By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.
In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve.
I have the dream to continue being in an art context, but also be able to continue doing stuff in television on the web.
This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth.
The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book.
I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.
Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!
When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!
Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.
Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.
That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.
Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.
The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.
If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.