Because the essence of creativity is fucking around; art is that which is done for the hell of it.
Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.
The art of teaching lies in communicating the mystery of the universe without taking the mystery out of it.
Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
My child has to be an artist, because conceiving her will be the best art my body has ever accommodated.
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.
And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art
Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for your art.
There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.
Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'
Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see.
Prefiero, señor, obrar bien y fracasar, antes que triunfar con malas artes. Palabras de Neoptólemo a Odiseo, en la tragedia griega Filoctetes.
Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.
Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.
But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.
