Quotes about art
art artist awakening
You are the artist and the art. Bryant H. McGill
art growth way
The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth. Bryant H. McGill
art dark men
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. Bryant H. McGill
art gay aesthetic
There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.' Catherine Opie
artist talent given
Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both. Carroll O'Connor
art creativity creative
Even a true artist does not always produce art. Carroll O'Connor
artist enemy reviewers
The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable. Carroll O'Connor
art writing ucla
No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class. Carol Burnett
art cat greek
One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art. Carl Van Vechten
art band music-is
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'. Carla Bley
art powerful war
Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war. Carl von Clausewitz
art flower soil
Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience. Carl von Clausewitz
art war views
The art of war in its highest point of view is policy. Carl von Clausewitz
art war simple
In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult. Carl von Clausewitz
art war moving
The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly than a complex plan can be adapted to it. By the time you have adapted, the target has changed. Carl von Clausewitz
artist delight world
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective. Alan Lightman
art thinking engineering
I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that. It is true that the arts at MIT don't have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering. Alan Lightman
art philosophy band
There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics. Alan Dean Foster
art character differences
Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art. Alan Dean Foster
art men inhuman
Art attests to what is inhuman in man. Alain Badiou
art cinema
The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art. Alain Badiou
art real reflection
Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection. Alain Badiou
art media entertainment
Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine. Al Yankovic
art feet media
I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue. Al Yankovic
art humble knows
I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art! Al Yankovic
artist long wish
I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes. Al Yankovic
artist people tools
As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me. Al Yankovic
artist mad magazines
It's hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don't have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff. Al Yankovic
artist years supportive
A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years. Al Yankovic
artist austin kind
What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat? Al Yankovic
art wrestling media
Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month. Al Yankovic
art feelings might
Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly. Alain de Botton
art suffering important
One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully. Alain de Botton