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Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.
Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul.
The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.
Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.
God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself.
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.
shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in.
Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.
A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really slim."
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.
I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.
Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.
To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.
I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.
Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.
Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.
In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred.
Some people like to hear and not see, so we have the radio. There are so many different ways that we can get and participate in the arts.
There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.
It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.
But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.
We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.
So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.
We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.
The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.
There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards.
The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.
Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.
New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.
But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.
Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.
Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.
I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.
We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.
Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it.
A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
Dont avoid extremes, and dont choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.