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The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
The saying 'the arts aid the body' is for samurai of other regions. For samurai of the Nabeshima clan the arts bring ruin to the body.
The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ... A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves
A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.
I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.
I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.
To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one’s own character.
I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.
Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.
Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.
So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent?
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.
Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.
Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.
The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.
What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.
Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.
Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.
Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.
It is more important to me to make art that is an honest expression of my life than it is to make pictures people think are well drawn
I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.
Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff up. It's easier that way.
There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.
It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.
Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.
An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.
A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact and art is not made in a vacuum.
Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.
Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?
Our culture is something that has sustained us for thousands and thousands of years and will continue to do so in generations to come.
And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
I have always known that I wanted to work with youth through the arts and I believe the arts can help young people cope with hardship.
I come from a martial arts background so kicking and punching and using your hands and your feet is more of the art that I was taught.
I'll never understand the art world. But I kind of feel like there's been some art world/black metal crossovers happening for a while.
Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.
You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.