The Art Quotes
The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.
The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one’s own most intimate sensitivity.
To discern profits only when it is within the ken of the market herd is not the acme of investing excellence
I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty.
Little decisions over time make a big impact on our lives.
Rather than feeling that every moment you’ve got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer is not to control everything, but to set things in motion.
...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...
I’ve never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision
My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it.
One thing that makes aikido is so powerful, it utilizes power of opponents to win the fight.
People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences
He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves.
Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.We decide to go out walking the whole time that you're talking.Convinced that you're living whole time that I'm dying.
When your world seems like falling apart, an inspiration is something you can always hold on to.
Judging is acting on a limited knowledge. Learn the art of observing without evaluating.
What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.
People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.
What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.
A critic must be knowledgeable in several fields, practices, and mediums. Brushing off art that they personally don't understand, is not a critique.
Most artists weren't famous until they died (mostly because once they'd died they couldn't create any more art, so it would make it more valuable).
...my writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on...
Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian
Getting an education is not only a matter of checking the boxes as your life progresses
There are many ways to find meaning in life, one of them is the love of art
It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.
And you, you’re an angel, ’ he said, scornfully, ‘but an angel from a hot place. Since I’m the devil, that makes you one of my subjects. I think I’ll brand you.
Most of them are remembered for their works, few are remembered in spite of them...for their finesse!
Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.
Dancing is to music what a beloved wife is to her husband. Both of them are so in love, you can't separate them.
When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.
... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.