What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul.

Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.

The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art

In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art.

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts.

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

The most beautiful thing about art is that there is no saturation point in creating!

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art.

Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.

The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish.

An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.

Today, I find inspiration in music, art, traveling the world, and meeting new people.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be.

Everything is inspiring! It could be fine art or a conversation I have with somebody!

The purpose of the study of judo is to perfect yourself and to contribute to society.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.

We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.

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