Quotes of: Performing-arts Keyword

But at the end of the day, you can't major in Making Stuff, so it was Art by default.

The Cheese Monkeys

Infiltrating the records of a state penitentiary as well as the state and federal court systems was much more fun than deciphering art. -Phil Roach

Convicted

Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.

A Different Blue

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.

Divisadero

Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.

Emile or On Education

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

Education of a Wandering Man

Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.

Encounter

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium

Epistles Book II and Epistle to the Pisones

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs

If the bards of old the true has told The sirens have raven hair. But over the earth since art had birth, They paint the angels fair.

Emily's Quest

For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.

Eminent Victorians

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.

The Flamethrowers

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

The Four Loves

...you called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?...

A Familiar Rain

...art is weaker than life - in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order - rune tiles to cast my fate...

A Familiar Rain

...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...

A Familiar Rain

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

The Great Divorce

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

Human, All Too Human

You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present.

Black Art