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Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science.
Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.
All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
I grew up doing martial arts, and I love martial arts movies and fight scenes. I'm pretty athletic, so I enjoy doing that stuff.
There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.
The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.
And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.
All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.
Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who will make something of him.
I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.
What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.
Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
See, that's the thing about L.A.- When you've mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room full of people, that's when you know.
Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.
Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe.
Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.
Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.
I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.
The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.
I don't look at a lot of design. I try to stay focused on making sculptural art pieces and somehow translating them into design.
One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art.
When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.
Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.
All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out.
Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.
So much work went into this book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"] - you can probably tell from looking at the art and overall design.
It's funny, because I'm so associated with digital art and computer art, and yet I spend so little time in front of the computer.
Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.
I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.
I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word of it. Art deserves to get paid.
I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.
First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.