Quotes of: High-art Keyword

All great art is praise.

Lectures on Art

This may not be art as art commonly goes; the lack of discipline, of control, would seem to rule it out of that category. And yet Woolrich's lack of control over emotions is a crucial element in his work, not only because it intensifies the fragility...

Francis M. Nevins Jr.

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

You go to a great school not so much for knowledge as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming, at a moment’s notice, a new intellectual position, for the art of entering quickly into anoth...

William Cory

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

Ann Bancroft

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

Havelock Ellis

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.

F. Sionil Jose

Defining art is huge; I feel like it's such a subjective thing. It's more like what's not art. You know what I mean? I think there can be an art in the way people live their lives, and art can be a gift someone gives to somebody.

Kathleen Hanna

Enjoy your dreams and empower others to live theirs.

Martial Arts UNLOCKED: A Parent's Guide for Choosing a Martial Arts School

A lot of people don't realize, when you are acting in a martial arts film, you're not just performing martial arts. You're not just performing martial arts. You're actually acting as much as any other actor.

Donnie Yen

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

Jet Li

I love art; I collect mostly modern art.

Alan Patricof

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Clarence Day

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Egon Schiele

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Samuel Johnson

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

Art & the Bible

One of God’s high callings for His people is that they be teachers of good things.

A Woman's High Calling

Just because she has high standards doesn't mean she’s high maintenance. Don’t confuse the two.

Steve Maraboli

I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume.

Mindy Kaling

I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid.

Selma Blair