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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.
I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.
Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.
For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.
I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.
There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.
Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.
Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.
If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists.
When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.
You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.
If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.
Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.
Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.
In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.
The naturalist picked up the eagle and said to it, "Thou dost belong to the sky and not to this earth; stretch forth thy wings and fly."
Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.
My main influence are the other members of the Royal Art Lodge, we've drawn together enough that we can't help but influence each other.
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.
A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.
I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick with them for life.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For 'Immortals,' it was body-weight stuff: crunches, pullups, and martial arts-based cardio.
I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.
I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.
Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.
We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.
When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts.
I'm really happy when I'm immersed in the art of it all - immersed in the music, the dance, the visual. Tapping into joy - it saves you.