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A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.
I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.
The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.
Everybody's beatable. Mixed martial arts, there's many ways to win, and that also means there are many ways to lose, as well.
The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.
I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.
As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.
To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.
Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.
Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.
The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.
The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.
If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.
Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.
More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.
It is my dearest wish to help young artists of our country....and to assist them in establishing themselves in the art world.
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.
Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.
I got the best advice I've ever been given; 'Punch him in the face as much as you can.' Keep it simple, so that's what I did.
I never buy a piece of art. I don't see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually.
A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.
I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.
Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.
Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun.
THE TECHNIQUES OF the Art of Peace are neither fast nor slow, nor are they inside or outside.. They transcend time and space.
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.
I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs.
Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.
You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.
Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.
When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."
A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.