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How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.
To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.
In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.
If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.
The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.
You live in my heart where no one sees you but I do. That vision becomes this art.
I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.
The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.
I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.
I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different.
...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.
Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.
While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.
In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done.
What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.
Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.
What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?
The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit.
The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.
I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.
Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.
Treat everyone with love and respect because they are your brother or your sister.
Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.
Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.
Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.
Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.
Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?
Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.
A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.