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There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.
Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.
What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.
O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.
The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.
The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.
Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me.
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).
But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!
I'm a street fighter. I'm ready for any kind of mixed martial arts that comes at me.
I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
Advocating through art is known as propaganda. You should look up the name Goebbels.
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.
Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.
Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.
Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.
Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.
You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.
Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful.
If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.
To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
As far as possible, I want nothing more than to don my training gi and teach Karate.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.
For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.
Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.