Quotes of: Fine-arts Keyword

We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things go by.

The Art Spirit

Creativity isn't a switch that's flicked on or off; it's a way of seeing, engaging and responding to the world around you.

The Art of Creative Thinking

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Tom Wolfe

Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.

William Morris Hunt

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization wi...

William Morris

In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.

Wallace Shawn

I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.

Zooey Deschanel

You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

Zaha Hadid

The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.

Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

I Capture the Castle

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

The Importance Of Living

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.

John Sloan on Drawing and Painting

Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.

King Lear

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

Romeo and Juliet

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything