Quotes of: Performing-arts Keyword

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

My Name is Red

Art is just an expression. An expression isn't the same as an act, as much as it sometimes feels that way.

Maybe Someday

To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults.

The Moon and Sixpence

If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules will be: To remember to forget that there are any such things as sunshine and music in the world.

Nightmare Abbey

But art and religion will always shadow one another through the abstract nouns they both invoke: truth, seriousness, imagination, sympathy, morality, transcendence.

Nothing to Be Frightened Of

The art of deep seeing makes gratitude possible.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

The October Country

How does one balance the fallen and redeemed aspects of life in the artistic portrayal of human experience in the world?

The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts

Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.

Let it Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires Sisyphean patience for its song, Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short and Art is long.

Les Fleurs du Mal

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

Leap

Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.

The Law

It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

I lacked the knowledge of linear perspective needed to get into the art school, so now I whitewash walls and imagine I’m heaven’s landscape painter.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

Sales is the art of canvasing a field, framing a problem, and painting a solution. But you can’t go Van Gogh on a deal. You’ve got to use both your ears.

Sleepwalking is restercise

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins.

Sun and Steel

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

The Solace of Open Spaces