Quotes of: Thou-art Keyword

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

Hay que dejar totalmente claro que las normas ordinarias del cine comercial y las producciones televisivas al uso corrompen al público de forma imperdonable, porque le roban cualquier posibilidad de contacto con el arte verdadero

Sculpting in Time

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

The Storyteller

A composition—and every work of art is one—is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there will always be an element of chance in the creative process.

Sophie's World

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.

Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About

Failure leads to a decrease in motivation only when it is accepted as failure. Failure leads students to improve when they see it is a stepping stone on the road to success.

Teaching Martial Arts

Growing up, the only class I didn’t doodle in was Art class, because there I’d get to spend the whole time drawing.

This Book Title is Invisible

Pushing the boundaries of my golden cage, searching for new ways of expression and freedom, unveiling the ambiguities between music and art, friendship and love—that was my summer of 1979.

The Orphan Sky

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939

And that’s the best we can hope for from art, you know? That it changes you for the better. That it lights up the world a little bit.

The Painting of Porcupine City

A key to the art of conversation is learning how to be an effective and active listener.

The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital

Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things ... Keep your eyes open, your ears open ... Trace difficulties.

Pushing to the Front

Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.

The Pursuit of God

Well, it is in fact possible to put things behind you, Rakel. The art of dealing with ghosts is to dare to look at them long and hard until you know that is what they are. Ghosts. Lifeless, powerless ghosts.

Phantom

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man