Quotes of: Thou-art Keyword

The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction...

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

The writer's characters must stand before us with a wonderful clarity, such continuous clarity that nothing they do strikes us as improbable behavior for just that character, even when the character's action is, as sometimes happens, something that c...

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

What is the world? What is it for? It is an art. It is the best of all possible art, a finite picture of the infinite. Assess it like prose, like poetry, like architecture, sculpture, painting, dance, delta blues, opera, tragedy, comedy, romance, epi...

N.D. Wilson

I had zero idea of what I was doing.. I honestly had no idea where to start. All I knew was I had something I craved to say.. I wanted to create art that lived on longer than I do. Perseverance and teaching yourself, every day through stress and hard...

scott mcgoldrick

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid, and damaging idea. You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art, to write beautiful things. If you need proof: Twai...

Tim Minchin

What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to exper...

Kurt Vonnegut

I think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a form of art. This is best seen in the theoretical aspects of Physical Science. The mathematical theorist builds up on certain assumptions and according t...

Ernest Rutherford

It didn't take me long out there, in the landscapes my father had painted, to realize that as much as I loved my country [Australia], I barely knew it. I'd spent so many years studying the art of our immigrant cultures, and barely any time at all on ...

Geraldine Brooks

(...) El arte necesita nostalgia. No se puede ser artista si no se ha perdido algo.

Crónicas del Ángel Gris

It only becomes art if it touches other people.

The Carpet Makers

Art is a harmony parallel with nature

Cizanne: Mont Sainte Victoire

There are absolutely no rules in art

Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces: A Mixed-Media Portrait Workshop

...the art of Europe is drowned in the centuries in the war-scarred face of a motherland..

A Familiar Rain

The Baron told her that only art meant anything.

The Gilded Bat

If you don't want a generation of robots, fund the arts!

Graffiti Moon

Art is the only proof we have that we told the truth.

Great Desires for Absent Things

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

On Balance

In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.

Alex Ebert

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

Louis Kahn

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

Philip Johnson

I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true.

Arnaud Desplechin