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I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk.
Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.
The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.
I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.
We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.
So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.
The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack - meditation.
It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.
For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.
The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.
Art is not always meant to be decorative or soothing, in fact, it can create uncomfortable conversations and stimulate uncomfortable emotions.
There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.
Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?
To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.
The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself.
All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.
Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.
You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.
Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.
To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.
The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.
In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.
I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.
Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.
Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.
Art is a great means of self-discovery. One of the things that appealed to me in the beginning was that it was a great way to get girlfriends.
They say that a lion puts his all, even into catching a rabbit. You should make it a habit of putting your all into every little thing you do.
Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.