Quotes of: Martial-arts Keyword

In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martia...

Taylor Mali

The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned female figures are used to artistic advantage in tableaux. They do not move.

Burlesque and the Art of the Teese / Fetish and the Art of the Teese

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.

The Rothko Chapel: Writings on Art and the Threshold of the Divine

The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.

Arne Glimcher

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Angelus Silesius

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

Arsene Wenger

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.

David Elliott

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.

Gloria Trevi

A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

Hans Haacke

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

Jeffrey Deitch

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

Joanna Russ

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

Muhammad Iqbal

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Saint Augustine

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

Samuel West

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

The Art Spirit

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

Thom Yorke

Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching

The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

The art of peaceful living comes down to living compassionately & wisely.

Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

Julie Bowen

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

Jasper Johns

If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tra...

On the Arts: Selections from G.W.F. Hegel's Aesthetics, or the Philosophy of Fine Art