The Art Quotes
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.
Without art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.
Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough.
Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.
If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.
Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk
A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.
Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lords?
The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.
Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts?
The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.
Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*
Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.
How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?
That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena
The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own voice and will shed the skin of the writer you imitated.
Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.
I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a border between living artists and dead artists.
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
