Quotes of: High-art Keyword

Only art can make the future love you, and that is what art is about: attraction at a distance, seduction from the past, inveiglement from beyond the grave. Art is a plea to love me when I’m gone. And yet, I thought to myself, who could love what I...

Necrophilia Variations

The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happ...

The Song Is You

This highest kind of truth is never something the artist takes as given. It's not his point of departure but his goal. Though the artist has beliefs, like other people, he realizes that a salient characteristic of art is its radical openness to persu...

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

I don’t like the shrug. It’s an abdication of responsibility for making sure that art keeps doing the things that art should do. If you shrug, that keeps the wheels turning the way they’re turning. It lets corporations turn you into selfish con...

Questlove

Whether you dance, draw, make music, shoot field goals, build houses, tune engines, or sit around all day watching television, you are an artist. Your single greatest work of art is your self. As with any art form, the more you understand and develop...

Scott Edmund Miller

Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in the affairs of men, is yet an art like other arts. Of these we may distinguish two great classes: those arts, like sculpture, painting, acting, which...

Robert Louis Stevenson

The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing. Desire urges us to posses, to go to something; loathing urges us to abandon, to go from something. These are kinetic emotions. The arts which excite them, pornographical or didacti...

James Joyce

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

Ronald Graham

The lizard that jumped from the high iroko tree said he would praise himself if no one else did.

Nigerian

Innovation is the art at the eyes of artist; the science at the mind of scientist; and the bridge between the art and science.

Digital Master

Aquellos de espíritu superior entienden la justicia. Los ordinarios, el beneficio.

El Arte de la Estrategia

How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead?

The French Art of Revenge

Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often.

GAMAN The Japanese Art of Patience

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

The Art of War

Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

The Art of War

Ah, spite, the stuff of fairy tales.

The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

It is best to keep one’s own state intact; to crush the enemy’s state is only second best.

The Art of War

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

The Art of War

Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.

The Art of War

Whether keenly striking or laughably awful, contemporary art is rarely unentertaining.

Are We There Yet?