Quotes of: Arts Keyword

Art is by nature aristocratic, and naturally selective in its effect on the audience. For even in its 'collective' manifestations, like theatre or cinema, its effect is bound up with the intimate emotions of each person who comes into contact with a ...

Sculpting in Time

We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur politicians. But the only way to apply something like scientific method in politics is to proceed on ...

The Poverty of Historicism

It is not just bookstores and libraries that are disappearing but museums, theaters, performing arts centers, art and music schools— all those places where I felt at home have joined the list of endangered species. The San Francisco Chronicle, the ...

Things I've Been Silent About: Memories

. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us. Instead we show up possessing already a highly refined and individuated soul. Another way of thinking of it is: We're not born with unlimited choices...

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Oh God, I love Thee mightily, Not only for Thy saving me, Nor yet because who love not Thee Must burn throughout eternity. Thou, Thou, my Jesu, once didst me Embrace upon the bitter Tree. For me the nails, the soldier's spear, With injury and insult,...

Robert Hugh Benson

A word of warning here. The events as you remember them will never be the same in your memory once you have turned them into a memoir. For years I have worried that if I turn all of my life into literature, I won't have any real life left - just stor...

Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art, Second Edit

Ever reviled, accursed, ne'er understood, Thou art the grisly terror of our age. "Wreck of all order," cry the multitude, "Art thou, & war & murder's endless rage." 0, let them cry. To them that ne'er have striven The 'truth that lies behind a word t...

John Henry Mackay

Ulysses Everett McGill: The treasure is still there boys, believe me. Delmar O'Donnell: But how'd he know about the treasure? Ulysses Everett McGill: I don't know Delmar. The blind are reputed to possess sensitivities compensating for their lack of s...

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

The first discipline is the realization that there a discipline—-that all art begins and ends with discipline, that any art is first and foremost a craft. We have gone far enough on the road to self-indulgence now to know that. The man who announce...

Archibald MacLeish

I have been in love with painting ever since I became conscious of it at the age of six. I drew some pictures I thought fairly good when I was fifty, but really nothing I did before the age of seventy was of any value at all. At seventy-three I have ...

Love

You can tell a lot about a country by its prisons. In hippy-dippy Socialist Sweden, rapists and murders (all three of them) while away their days making arts and crafts in what are essentially taxpayer-funded mental health clinics. The Swedes’ theo...

Love

What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?

Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative

Nothing snubs quite like a cat. What evolutionary purpose did it serve, this inherent disdain, this artful blanking?

Care of Wooden Floors

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

The Collector

But at the end of the day, you can't major in Making Stuff, so it was Art by default.

The Cheese Monkeys

Infiltrating the records of a state penitentiary as well as the state and federal court systems was much more fun than deciphering art. -Phil Roach

Convicted

Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.

A Different Blue

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.

Divisadero

Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.

Emile or On Education

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

Education of a Wandering Man