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Zion, thou art doubtless anxious for news of thy captives; they ask after thee, they who are the remainder of thy flock.
We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
Art is really predicated upon the experiences that you've had in your life. You only have to share what you've consumed.
Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.
Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.
I believe that every human being has an understanding of art. What is separating us is smaller than what is unifying us.
Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.
I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.
I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.
I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.
Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.
My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.
Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.
Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.
Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.
I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.
He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.
When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.
Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.
Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?
I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.
I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall.
These are six ways of courting defeat, which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post.
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.
On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.
For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.
To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a “gift.”
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.
This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.
How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!
As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'
To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.
She'd like to model or maybe act or star in a magazine. Before she signs any big contracts, she better learn how to read.
To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.
To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.