Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time, a criticism that takes in various arts all at once.
My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'
What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.
In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.
It's said that we can all choose our own destiny. But sometimes, for a special few, destiny has no choice but to choose for you.
That these people are wandering around, looking for aliens to justify the emptiness inside them and let them feel special without effort, creeps me out.
We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.
Spiders don't chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey's insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch!
Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity
Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.
A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.
Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?
The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?
If you want to feel like your life isn't too bad, take a Greyhound bus, Aleah. We should all take Greyhound buses.
In practice, we return over and over again to perception, to just sitting. Practice is just hearing, just seeing, just feeling.
Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.
