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Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.
The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.
I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.
We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town.
Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.
The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.
It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.
'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'
I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.
We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.
This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.
I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.
I'm going to teach you the art of swordsmanship-or in other words, how to totally kill someone with a sharp, pointy thing.
I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.
Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.
I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.
I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.
The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.
Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.
Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.
By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.
every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.
There's people that focus on the game and forget about the art. There's that specific special individual that can do both.
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.
I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.
Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.
There will be losing years; but if the art of making money is not to lose it, then there should not be substantial losses.
I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.
Being surrounded by artistic and musical beauty soothes the soul, bringing both quiet calm and creative inspiration. . . .
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.
Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.
Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences.
Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.