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Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.
With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.
That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
The reordering of the luminous fibers is a very sophisticated art. It's not something anyone should ever undertake without supervision.
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.
I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.
We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.
All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.
Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.
Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.
I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.
The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.
Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?
... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.
Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft I've wet my feet!
When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an absorbing one someone will listen.
What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.
Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color
Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.
I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in books until much later.
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.
An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.
It's hard to fathom the psychology of the economics of art. I don't quite understand it, and I don't necessarily want to understand it.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.
There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.
The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts.
If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.
Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.
As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.
Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?