What Is Art Quotes
Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.
I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.
The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all other learning.
How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.
The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn’t trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking.
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
I'm not an exhibitionist. But, honestly, for my art I'll do anything almost. I'll go there.
Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.
The knowledge of the nature of a horse is one of the first foundations of the art if riding it, and every horseman must make it his principal study.
In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
When I die I intend to take my music with me. I don't know what's out there, but I want to make sure it's in my key.
It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.
The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.
Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius.
This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.
The stallion and his mare, unbridled, with arrow-pattern, are worked on. the blue cloth before the door of religion and inspiration.
I've been trying to find a redeeming feature to Palpatine, and the only one I've got so far is that he's clearly a patron of the arts because he goes to the opera.
It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.
Lookin at herself, but wishing she was someone else because the body of the doll that don't look like hers at all. So she straps it on, she sucks it in, she throws it up and gives a grin.
