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Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .
Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.
Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.
Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.
The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.
I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.
The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?
In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.
I was never into sports, and my passion was the arts as long as I could remember.
Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing.
Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.
There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.
The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.
Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.
Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.
First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.
Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.
The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
The world is full of Kings and Queens, Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.
If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it.
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.
True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do.
Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.
There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.