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Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.
But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.
Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.
I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.
The future is female, so women are invited, as they do, to take responsability in the world of politics, in the economics, in art
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.
Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography.
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.
What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things.
Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.
Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human.
No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.
Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?
We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.
With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split.
It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.
Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.
I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my field of art, film and animation.
The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.
Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.
I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my eye for art.
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.
I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
There were nude pictures... a lot of it is erotic or sexual. But I don't view my collection as dirty in any way. I view it as art.
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.
Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.
I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.
It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.
Art that arises out of the inner landscape, and is connected to our lived experience, illuminates the darkness and heals the soul.
I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I do all kinds of different martial arts.
The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork.
Leadership is the art of creating a working climate that inspires others to achieve extraordinary goals and levels of performance.
As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.
I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.
I think the most important thing is to establish myself as an actor. As much as it's a performing art, I'm not really a performer.
90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.
D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!" -D'Artagnan