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It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.
I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.
The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.
Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.
If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.
What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to the future.
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)
I believe art should be an integral part of life. I try to give my work an almost magical energy that makes the viewer feel good.
One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.
I have always considered the aesthetic of a project, including press photos, as a means to further the message of the art itself.
Some jobs you do - maybe you don't - are jobs that pay mortgages and some are art and I don't care about not being paid on those.
Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.
Appreciation is an art and a lifestyle and a source of happiness and fulfillment. It's called gratitude-an attitude of gratitude.
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.
I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond!
It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
It's just that some things more important for this and less important for that, and this is true regardless the style of the art.
I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.
I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."
Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.
When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the war.
Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.
It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.
Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.
The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.
Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.
Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.
The art feeds my mind and soul and the job pays my bills. Finding the balance can be a challenge, but I am very fortunate for it.
I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.
The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.
I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any art form, you can misuse it.
The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.
O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist
A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
Graffiti is something written on a wall, and, of course, art can be exhibited or produced anywhere: a wall is just another venue.
Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.