Quotes of: Art-history Keyword

The purpose of music as an art form, is to engage the audience.

Unarine Ramaru

In asking for a relic of Descartes, the chevalier de Terlon was standing at the crossroads of the ancient and modern. He was applying to a modern thinker - the inventor of analytic geometry, no less - a primitive tradition that extends back not only ...

Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason

And I'll go even further and say that mathematics, this art of abstract pattern-making — even more than storytelling, painting, or music - is our most quintessentially human art form. This is what our brains do, whether we like it or not. We are bi...

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

This assumption of the intrinsically repressive nature of collective experience and redemptive power of individuation is a staple of contemporary art theory and criticism. I would argue that a closer analysis of collaborative and collective art pract...

The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context

Not everyone understands what a completely rational process this is, this maintenance of a motorcycle. They think it's some kind of "knack" or some kind of "affinity for machines" in operation. They are right, but the knack is almost purely a process...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to...

The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature

I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to c...

The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field

Swansea is a town where art is alive. If it became a cultural centre or a resort where art was fashionable and where it was always being discussed but never being created, it would be a town where art was dead... There is no room in Swansea to be pom...

Dylan Thomas

I'm a golfer not a history major.

Bubba Watson

Arabic is a language, Persian is a delicacy and Turkish is an art.

Iranian

Better be proficient in one art than a smatterer in a thousand.

Japanese

To be a fool at the right time is also an art.

Swiss

In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by their proponents. Students study how to make tea, perform martial arts, or write with a brush in th...

Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation

Billy Beane: I want Dye in right, Justice DHing, Peña on the bench, Hatteberg at first, and anyone but Mags first out of the pen. Art Howe: You want Peña on the bench? Billy Beane: That's right. So you can play Hatty. Art Howe: Peña is not only th...

Moneyball

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Sejarah bukanlah apa yang terjadi. Sejarah hanyalah apa yang dituturkan sejarawan kepada kita.

A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

Culture is always on the move.

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity.

The Address Of Happiness

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

... a thing can only live through a pious illusion.

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

A History of Western Philosophy