The Art Quotes
The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.
The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too.
I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.
When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders.
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously.
I don't want to make plop art — sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the world with my sculpture.
To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how to be violent and that's much more dangerous in a way.
I'm not really anti-gang - I was a gang member and so was my son. I'm pro-youth, pro-community, pro-family, pro-arts, and pro-peace.
The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.
I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something.
Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war.
Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God.
Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more.
Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.
To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a “gift.”
Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.
