Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physi...
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
Art can only be taught by artists.
If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country.
I've lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once 'created,' or produced, the art of fiction.
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.
He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents' disappointment. I attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers where Bill Esper was, and that is where I really got hooked on the a...
I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.
Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.
Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.
