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I think it's important to have a blend just as we need to have by the way a mix of different opera companies and different arts companies.
It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.
The arts are statistically proven to increase independent thinking, creativity, discipline, balance, and academic improvement in children.
I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.
I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art collector, but I'm really not.
Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.
What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?
I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.
IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.
Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart.
Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.
if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.
I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible at present exactly to ascertain.
The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.
With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.
Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.
The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists.
Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.
What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.
I think that artists have a better chance at making great art if they know as much about every different area in the industry as they can.
A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivalled heights.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .
It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.
I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.
There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I can't do that.
The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.
Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap.
I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.
A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them.
I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.
Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.
I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.
Be grateful even for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace.
Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.
Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.
During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?
Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.
What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that you didn't anticipate.
There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.
It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.