Quotes about art
arts based diet heavy lifting low martial program weight
'Immortals' was very much a martial arts based training program - a lot of body weight stuff, very little in the way of actually lifting heavy weights, and a very, very low calorie diet. Henry Cavill
art involved man music trying
I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing. Harvey Pekar
art everybody great jazz poet time writer
I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was a jazz critic, and I was always thinking, theorizing about what makes great art or what's important in art. Harvey Pekar
art artists arts becomes comics form styles
I'd like to see the comics' style expanded. I'd like to see artists synthesize traditional comics arts style with fine-arts styles or whatever. I like to see innovation. I don't like it when an art form becomes stagnant. Harvey Pekar
art bad cleveland left museum people stuff symphony wealthy
Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there's a lot of stuff that's left over from when there were very wealthy people - the Art Museum and a world class symphony that's still world class. Harvey Pekar
art next tech unlike
We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry.
art came found legitimate maybe movies people saying sound theater white
When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms. Hans Zimmer
art reading skip
The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Alexander Hamilton
art people film-music
Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt. Alex North
art thinking acting
I think it started since I was born, I always had a need to express myself, you know, as a human being, and I found that it felt right when I expressed myself through art, dance, through acting, so it kind of happened naturally. Alex Meraz
art writing said
Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write. Aleksandar Hemon
art book school
I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me. Aleksandar Hemon
art connections moral
There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all. Aleksandar Hemon
art stupid simplicity
Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and it gravitates toward simplicity - towards essentializing things so they can be sold. Aleksandar Hemon
art giving-up difficulty
Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art. Aleksandar Hemon
art believe clinging
I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility. Aleksandar Hemon
art fiction narrative
What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time. Aleksandar Hemon
art hate fall
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the human body. The embittered art of the twentieth century is perishing as a result of this ugly hate, for art is fruitless without love. In the East art has collapsed because it has been knocked down and trampled upon, but in the West the fall has been voluntary, a decline into a contrived and pretentious quest where the artist, instead of attempting to reveal the divine plan, tries to put himself in the place of God. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
art two differences
The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the differences of language, customs and social structure we are able to communicate life experience from one whole nation to another, to communicate a difficult national experience many decades long which the second of the two has never experienced. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
artist chance fewer
The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
artist two imagination
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
art dare defined
Who will dare say he has defined art? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
art grief our-world
Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
art dies
We will die, but art will remain. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
art too-much bread
Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread! Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
art mean simple
Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
art views light
Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a whole. Indeed, something greater than a phenomenon confined to art can be discerned shimmering here beneath the surface - shimmering not with light but with an ominous crimson glow. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
art literature sole
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
art artist names
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
artist heaven realizing
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
art men people
The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
art fall age
A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
art mean names
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn