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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.
Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.
Art is only the search, it is not the final form. It's unlimited, it's forever.
It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.
All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system.
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.
picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.
Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.
Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.
The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.
Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.
How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?
If you're in the mood for a blushing art house romance, you'll fall for it, too.
Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject.
That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.
Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way.
Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.
My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.
I'm a true believer in not forcing anything. I hate forced art, forced anything.
Holding on to anger is like poisoning yourself and hoping someone else will die.
I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.
If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.
I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.
The art of tomorrow will be a collective treasure, or it will not be art at all.
Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.
If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.
A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.
You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.