Quotes of: Fine-arts Keyword

Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical.

The Art of Spiritual Dreaming

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Ruby describes the decorations at the banquet. 'It was like little gardens of rhapsody on every table. It was divine.

The Art of Arranging Flowers

The ego wants to own every­thing; this denies the invinci­bility of surrender, the hand­maid­en of love.

Ascension!: An Analysis of the Art of Ascension as Taught by the Ishayas

There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

A scholar must not only be capable of hard, often totally resultless work - he must actually relish it.

The Art of Literary Research

The end will be what it will be. The object is intense living, fulfillment; the great happiness in creation.

The Art Spirit

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

The Art Spirit

Those who express even a little of themselves never become old-fashioned.

The Art Spirit

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

The Art Spirit

Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.

The Art of Self-Control

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

The Art Spirit

The confidence essential to effective habit-making comes as a rule from knowledge of previous and related successes.

The Art of Self-Control

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one.

Tom Wolfe

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

William Blake

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Walter Savage Landor

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

Yoko Ono

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.

The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History