Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.
And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art
Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for your art.
There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.
Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'
Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see.
Prefiero, señor, obrar bien y fracasar, antes que triunfar con malas artes. Palabras de Neoptólemo a Odiseo, en la tragedia griega Filoctetes.
Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.
Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.
But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.
I went to a school in N.Y. that is conceptual and interdisciplinary and modeled after Cal Arts. It is not just painting or sculpture; it was everything mixed together.
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.
I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.
Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not really a film industry there at all.
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.
