Quotes about art
art magazines
When I'm on vacation, I go to art shops. I look at other sculptures, magazines and books. It's all about imagination. Joe Nelson
artisan home la
When I'm home in L.A., I go to La Brea, a bakery which does artisan breads, excellent sourdoughs primarily, but also patisserie and cakes. Nobu Matsuhisa
arthur artistic deeply embedded met psyche
When I met Miller, for me it wasn't a question of wanting to meet him because it was Arthur Miller; it was a kind of astonishment that I could meet someone who was so deeply embedded in the psyche of my artistic development. Simon McBurney
artful cameron dodger family front people played realized role shocked until
When I was 12, I played the Artful Dodger in Cameron McKintosh's production of 'Oliver!' when it came to Toronto. Just getting the role shocked my whole family, and I don't think I realized until then just how much I loved getting up in front of people and performing. Jake Epstein
art comedians feature form funny standup
Podcasts feature comedians being as funny as they can be in a non-censored situation. It's really akin to standup in a way. When you go see a comedian in standup, that is the most pure, unadulterated form of their art. Scott Aukerman
art believe call films good singular test
The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art. Terry Zwigoff
artificial whereas
Synths are a very low level of artificial intelligence. Whereas you have a Stradivarius that will live for a thousand years. Thomas Bangalter
artists contact fans good nice point tweeting twitter
What's nice about Twitter is that you've got that point of contact with your fans that artists have never had before. I think it's good for musicians. Just as long as you don't start tweeting things about your girlfriends or boyfriends - there's got to be a line. Tom Odell
art great-art art-is
Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway. Edward Abbey
art pride taste
Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent. Edward Abbey
art perfect produce
How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator. Edward Abbey
art inspire nature-and-life
All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires. Edward Abbey
artist technique truth-is
The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist. Edward Abbey
art horse museums
Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places. Edward Abbey
art savages madness
Music is a savage art, a measured madness. Edward Abbey
art
Life imitates art -- but badly. Edward Abbey
art honesty clean
In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean. Edward Abbey
artist decline trajectory
There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline. Edward Abbey
artist veils seven
Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand. Edward Abbey
art political world
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be. Edward Abbey
art soul body
In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one. Edward Abbey
art enemy looks
There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks. Edward Abbey
art philosophy crude
Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience. Edward Abbey
art numbers littles
Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words. Edward Abbey
art responsibility two
The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition. Edward Abbey
art perfect great-art
Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great. Edward Abbey
art alternatives expansion
Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness. Edward Abbey
art practice causes
The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself. Aristotle
art atheism woods
If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature. Aristotle
art time air
A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art. Aristotle
art states capacity
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning. Aristotle
art war long
And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war. Aristotle
art philosophy men
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? Aristotle