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Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.
I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.
I am surprisingly optimistic, though lately that's been hard to maintain. Art and slow, small, close gestures help remind me of my optimism.
I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable
I was 12 in 1989 during perestroika, when my mother found a program that sent me to Russia to study art in the forests outside of Leningrad.
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.
The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community.
Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.
One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.
Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
My love for sports will never die. I love martial arts and I want to promote it in whichever way I can. I am a fighter first, then an actor.
There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!
Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.
Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.
As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.
I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because its part of my journey.
There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.
I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.
Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.
Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art timing.
Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.
The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.
People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.
Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.
Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.
It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.
Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.
Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.
Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.
Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.
I will be patient, kind, faithful and true To a man who loves music a man who loves art Respect's the spirit world and thinks with his heart
I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything.
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.
I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.
There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.
Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.
Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.
There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.
If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.
Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody. Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about? Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.
When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.