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The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.
My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health
The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.
If you want to explore, go do it. If you want to try different types of art, do it.
I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.
Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.
But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.
True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."
I thought I might have to give up art, but I couldn't think of anything else to do.
I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution
Art is... a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.
Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.
PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.
Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.
The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.
Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.
I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.
Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.
There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
Picture all the money that I've gotten off tours. Now picture me plotting for more.
The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied.
The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.
I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.
Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
Prayer is an art which only the Spirit can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer.
One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.
I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.
In place of the dream, the future will put art on a scientific and technical basis.
abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.
I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.
I always treated the science thing and the art thing as quite similar thematically.
The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art.
I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.
Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.