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France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.
Disability is not a brave struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live.
Over the years I have learned that creating art has made me happy. I used to be a lawyer and I'm much happier being an artist.
There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want.
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.
Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future.
The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.
It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about people.
I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.
Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.
How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.
Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.
I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.
Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.
All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.
Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.
Do not fall into the trap of thinking that just because a kata begins to the left that the opponent is attacking from the left.
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
There are films that can only be made in a specific country but that have a wider meaning. I think that's true of any art form.
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.
I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.
Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.
Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.
The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.
Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .
I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.
Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.
It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.
Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.
This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for?
Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.
Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?
People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.
Tea beckons us to enjoy quality time with friends and loved ones, and especially to rediscover the art of relaxed conversation.
In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
One of my most strong memories was studying with Mel Bochner, one of the, I think, high water marks of American conceptual art.
I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what I'm able to do in any way.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.