Quotes of: Fine-art Keyword

The importance of resolution over craft is one of the most important shifts in art making besides the creation of .

Mature Themes

A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

The Nigger of the Narcissus

Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students.

Nevada

But the body had its own cultural forms. It had its own art. Executions were its tragedies, pornography was its romance.

Oryx and Crake

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.

For the Love of Art

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

Lord of Chaos

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.

The Lords of Discipline

The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Life, the Universe and Everything

The key is to integrate our art into our life, not the other way around.

Letting Go of the Camera: Essays on Photography and the Creative Life

What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?

Meditations from a Movable Chair

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?

The Shock of the New

Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the wisdom and the moral strength of the statesman

Scientific Man Vs. Power Politics

Sales is the art of giving people what they don’t know they want, when they don’t think they’ll need it, at a price they don’t think they can afford.

Sleepwalking is restercise

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair To be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

What were prizes but one more level of control imposed on Art by the establishment?

Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

Things Fall Apart

Apparently rational justifications will never explain all sorts of the different feelings and raw emotions art invoke in people.

Trust: Pandora's Box

I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it. --Robin

The Outlaws of Sherwood