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Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.
On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.
it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day.
I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.
I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed' into art."
One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.
I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.
The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.
What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many.
The Christos-image is most difficult to disentangle from its art-craft junk-shop paint-and-plaster medieval jumble of pain-worship and death-symbol.
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.
Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.
If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.
People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.
Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick.
Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.
Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here is a little more chaotic.
I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.
Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.
If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.
I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.
I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too.
I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.
A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility
Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.
Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.
I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.
The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every new age.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.
In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.
To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.
Women developed it as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. The problem is that it limits you. You are in a controlling situation in duality.
Every artist should live by these words: Never feel bad about successfully selling your creations. Never feel bad about creating art you can't sell.
Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.
I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.
I really got attracted to the idea of touching so many people and that idea of art transcending entertainment and art and activism being synonymous.
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.