Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?
With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others' houses and going to the library to do art and stuff. It's almost like our own little school - a really little school.
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image.
I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.
That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.
It would be both an identical work of art only by virtue of its difference. The same but different, he suggested, like twins.
This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes.
An artist must either give up art or develop.
It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.
He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.
I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and leave.
Others beside Jane Austen have made their Eltons, though none quite so cooly as she.
In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.
A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.
