The Art Quotes
Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.
Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think that it is an art at all.
The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive.That is who we are.
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.
The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.
In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.
Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.
In some Arab art exhibitions that have happened, there's always this idea that the East is more traditional; they show a lot of works on calligraphy and religion.
I'm inspired by good work. Whether it is a great performance by another actor, a piece of art, or someone doing something altruistic.
Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.
Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there.
In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer to look at, let alone exhibit, anything photographic.
I'm going to teach you the art of swordsmanship-or in other words, how to totally kill someone with a sharp, pointy thing.
It's just that some things more important for this and less important for that, and this is true regardless the style of the art.
In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal contact was great.
Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare indeed.
To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.
Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).
I have always felt a connection between daily life and art...my reality has been my key.
I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in books until much later.
I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.
The arts are statistically proven to increase independent thinking, creativity, discipline, balance, and academic improvement in children.
When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.
I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.
Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.
It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.
If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules - to make us whole again.
I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.
Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.
Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it: in writing, in art.
SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.
I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could think was how I was going to reinvent the experience into a piece of art.
In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?