And I'll go even further and say that mathematics, this art of abstract pattern-making — even more than storytelling, painting, or music - is our most quintessentially human art form. This is what our brains do, whether we like it or not. We are bi...
This assumption of the intrinsically repressive nature of collective experience and redemptive power of individuation is a staple of contemporary art theory and criticism. I would argue that a closer analysis of collaborative and collective art pract...
Not everyone understands what a completely rational process this is, this maintenance of a motorcycle. They think it's some kind of "knack" or some kind of "affinity for machines" in operation. They are right, but the knack is almost purely a process...
On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to...
I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to c...
Swansea is a town where art is alive. If it became a cultural centre or a resort where art was fashionable and where it was always being discussed but never being created, it would be a town where art was dead... There is no room in Swansea to be pom...
Arabic is a language, Persian is a delicacy and Turkish is an art.
Better be proficient in one art than a smatterer in a thousand.
To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
He who wants to jump high must take a long run.
He who starts singing too high will never finish the song.
Those in a high position can be seen from far away.
If you hold high office, the whole village will share your fame.
You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.
In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by their proponents. Students study how to make tea, perform martial arts, or write with a brush in th...
Billy Beane: I want Dye in right, Justice DHing, Peña on the bench, Hatteberg at first, and anyone but Mags first out of the pen. Art Howe: You want Peña on the bench? Billy Beane: That's right. So you can play Hatty. Art Howe: Peña is not only th...
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.
I'm not interested in pop art.
Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo.
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.