Quotes of: Performing-arts Keyword

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

Science & Human Values

Her life is lived through the masterpiece of art, that she cannot draw.

Once a Girl, Now a Woman

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

Poetry as Insurgent Art

Cultivate the art of maximizing serendipitous opportunities.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Poetics

A metamorphosis... The shining butterfly of the soul from the pupa of the body. Larva, pupa, imago. An image of art.

The Virgin in the Garden

Perhaps an eternal law of art is that, for everything discovered, something of value is forgotten.

The Vintage Guide to Classical Music

If a thousand painters worked for a thousand years, they could not create a work of art as beautiful as you

Waiting for Mercy

Because the essence of creativity is fucking around; art is that which is done for the hell of it.

We Learn Nothing

Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.

The Way of Shadows

Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.

Zen in the Martial Arts

The art of teaching lies in communicating the mystery of the universe without taking the mystery out of it.

The Zen of Teaching

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

Henry Miller

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Ludwig van Beethoven

My child has to be an artist, because conceiving her will be the best art my body has ever accommodated.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Oscar Wilde

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

Oscar Wilde

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

Pauline Kael

I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.

Philippe Petit

And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art

Percy Bysshe Shelley