The art of civil conversation begins at birth. Then goes from the dinner table to the schoolroom, to interaction among friends, to the work place, and on to other places where all manner of social...

Dancing is to music what a beloved wife is to her husband. Both of them are so in love, you can’t separate them.

… in art nothing is more secondary than the author’s intentions.

That’s art. Nothing is for everybody.

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is...

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

When I was in art school, we were looking one day at a slide of some great fifteenth century painting, and one of the students asked ‘Why don’t artists paint like that now?’ The room...

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Being rich is an untalented artist’s consolation prize.

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

Art never comes from happiness.

Focus is the art of knowing what to ignore.

Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, to find out the business that needs you the most, to find the project and the art that needs you...

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art corrupts. Absolute art corrupts absolutely. Please corrupt me absolutely.

In many ways an artist is his work. It’s difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work as I create it, and if something doesn’t work, I can...

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

Frame everything and some of it will become art.

When happiness rides on the wings of art, it transcends time.

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

The Seeker, The Teacher and The Genius:Knowing is an art; communicating that knowledge is art twice over; but it is only the genius who can use that knowledge.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Winemaking is an artistic creation in which you deal with a variety of styles, colors, and inspiration, therefore, good wine, like good art, can evoke emotions, sensations and create an experience that leaves a lasting...

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim.The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful...

If our cultural lives are sick, it is likely to be an impediment to our spiritual lives. Much popular culture promotes a spirit of restlessness. That is likely to be an obstacle to prayer, to...

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

Life is art and art is life.

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art – panem et Circen.

But at the end of the day, you can’t major in Making Stuff, so it was Art by default.

He couldn’t imagine using the word ‘rewarding’ about a work of art – for instance that such and such a book has given me so much, taught me so much, etc etc. – but thought...

What I’m trying to describe is that it’s impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else’s…. That somebody else’s tragedy is not the same as your own.

It’s a landscape painting of Key West, from the perspective of an optimistic blind man.

I am a single drop of blood trying to mix in with billions of red paint splatters in this Pollack painting called life. I think the cops are trying to frame me.

As a sculptor, I prefer busts. As a lover of women, I prefer busts. And as a football enthusiast, I prefer Robert Griffin III.

Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it’s process.

…[F]ireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art. They had pattern and sequence, colour and sound, brilliance and mobility; they had...

Don’t wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you’re gonna have to run.

Art does what reality cannot.

Now you stride alone through the Paris crowds Busses in bellowing herds roll by Anguish clutches your throat As if you would never again be loved In the old days you would have turned monk...

The first thousand are the hardest.

There are absolutely no rules in art

In the twentieth century, science has been everything and the arts almost nothing by comparison. As a result, many artists now pretend to be scientists. They try to imitate the strategies of science. Paintings that...

If you don’t have shadows, you’re not in the light.

When you walk,go different roads that take you nowhere,and see your world.

I recognized the great monument from the illustration in the copy of /The Jungle Book/ that my mother kept in the top drawer of my bedside table. When I went with Sophia to the Taj...

Industry in art is a necessity—not a virtue—and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone...

Co do szczegółów, to podobał mi się fragment na temat alkoholu. Z dłuższych cytatów, przytaczanych niestety bez podawania źródeł, wynika tutaj, że często nieodparta atrakcyjność alkoholu polega nie na fizycznej przyjemności, lecz na jego mistycznej...

The difference between email being identified as an art or a science is truly an individual decision based on the impact that the elements of the design mean when they are processed by the viewer.