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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water.
The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.
It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.
The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the moment of writing it down.
Capoeira is a game, it is dance, it is fight, it is of war and it is of peace, it is of culture, of music, it is a portion of things.
A German shepherd dog could walk in the office with a script in his mouth, and if that script was really good, they'd buy the script.
Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.
In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.
What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.
Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.
As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy.
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.
My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.
Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.
Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.
From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless.
You do have to put in a lot time to get good at anything and than includes cartoons. So I think it's true of art and everything else.
I'm inspired by good work. Whether it is a great performance by another actor, a piece of art, or someone doing something altruistic.
The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.
There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.
Critics of art are like eunuchs in harem. They see how it's done when the men come to see the women, but they can't do it themselves.
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.
Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece.
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month.
If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.
It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.
We are the measure of all things. And the beauty of our creation, of our art is proportional to the beauty of ourselves of our souls.
Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.
Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.
The art world loves to throw things out and bring new things in. There's always this new circle of artists entering every five years.
New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.
Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.
Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.
If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt
My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.
I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.
The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.