A good deed is the best form of prayer.
The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned female figures are used to artistic advantage in tableaux. They do not move.
Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do, and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do.
But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.
the focus one finds in the grammar books is on the wrong forms, on forms detached from the underlying (or overarching) form that must be in place before any technical terms can be meaningful or alive
Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is s...
Love is the purest form of a soul at peace.
Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.
Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
The highest form of charity is giving education with love.
The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.
Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.
I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.
A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.
Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
