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The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.
The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.
Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.
I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.
I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.
Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.
Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.
There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on and so forth.
I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.
Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.
Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.
Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.
The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.
You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art.
The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people.
Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.
A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.
In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.
It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.
You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.
Tattooing is historical, cultural and a great form of art but it should always be safe for both the client and the tattoo practitioner.
In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.
The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant
It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.
To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day, for years.
In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal contact was great.
When I work with my art department on putting imagery together for my blog posts I always think, 'Would I pin this?' That really helps.
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.
Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.
Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.
It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist, that's very inspiring.
I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area.
The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.
I think pornography is the only art form where you can be videotaped on a shaky handy cam sucking off a horse and be considered a star.