Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.
That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.
We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.
Americans have mastered the art of being prosperous though broke.
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
A winning wave (deserving note) In the tempestuous petticoat A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
I have been subject to politics as long as I've been alive, thirty-five years, starting with the New Deal, going into the Second World War, the Cold War, Korea, the whole thing. So, I've been affected by it and hence since I've made my art, my art must reflect my political experience.
Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the art.
Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.
The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.
Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations are a potent force to fight for social justice.
If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. the more this union with the universal is felt, the more individual subjectivity declines.
This is still unknown territory. The question is how much of the appeal of a singer like this is because she's underground. It's a classic trade-off in the music industry. There are a lot of people that like that discovery process. They like to be cool. So when the artist actually gets over to a big label, all of their original fans will think the band sold out.
The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling.
We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't.
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
Politics is the art of the next best.
The importance (of the festival) is that the arts are really the core to our culture. Everything revolves around the arts and some of the research now in education is showing very clearly that the arts are really core to that. That you can do so much more with the arts developing the brain, developing connections in the brain, developing how people learn, how children learn.
Our expectations for flat-to-down industry sales growth in 2006 and increased spending by Electronic Arts on research and development lead us to conclude that Electronic Arts is unlikely to achieve any significant earnings-per-share growth in fiscal-year 2007.
Today there are movements in the arts to reintroduce beauty and narrative and melody and other basic human pleasures. And they are considered radical extremists.
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art.
Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys.
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.
Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.
Internet con artists are bad actors without borders.
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
The purpose is to showcase the art and writing of the students. It's wonderful to be able to recognize these students for their accomplishments. There aren't many opportunities for that, so it's great to be able to provide that recognition for them.
I've always felt badly that Jimmy wasn't treated with the kind of respect that I thought he deserved, ... Having known him and known how committed and determined he was as an artist and how tortured he was as a human being, and knowing the agonies of his childhood, I felt that this was a good chance to make an honorable psychological portrait of him.
Cadillac said we could all fly out to Detroit and give input as they start putting together their hybrid models and the way they would be presented to the public. ... Artists and corporations working together, that's the 21st century. That's the true Age of Aquarius. But John's ego wouldn't let him see it was a good thing to do.
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
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