I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.
I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
We really wanted each artist to respond from their own practice, so the images have a commonality of the experience and the subject matter and the etching process, and also the diversity of the artists' background.
Art is one step from the visibly known toward the unknown.
I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do.
To have a lot of people clap is not my goal, so it took me a few years to realize that I am an artist more than a wannabe rock 'n' roll star.
We're basically capturing that same emotion. I think a lot of folks miss out on the art of things these days, so we're gonna try to find it.
You have to remember that we are a non-profit and our mission is to bring arts, culture and music to the city. That's why we're here.
But when great and ingenious artists behold their so inept performances, not undeservedly do they ridicule the blindness of such men since sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. Now the sole reason why painters of this sort are not aware of their own error is that they have not learnt Geometry, without which no one can either be or become an absolute artist but the blame for this should be laid upon their masters, who are themselves ignorant of this art.
Medicine is an art, and attends to the nature and constitution of the patient, and has principles of action And reason in each case.
My trade and art is to live.
It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.
I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.
And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.
It is an open house for people to see the facilities, meet the staff and get an idea of the state of the art facilities and quality of people that are there.
It is not difficult to write in Spanish the Spanish language is a gift from the gods which we Spaniards take for granted. I take comfort therefore in the belief that you wished to pay tribute to a glorious language and not to the humble writer who uses it for everything it can express the joy and the wisdom of Mankind, since literature is an art form of all and for all, although written without deference, heeding only the voiceless, anonymous murmur of a given place and time.
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
I believe the elements of nature -- light, shadow, color, value, and composition -- are the essential ingredients of my art. I try to utilize the realism of the scene but include the value of color and shadow to stand out with some nice contrasts so the point of interest is easily visible to the viewer.
There was a time when black artists couldn't get signed to a major label.
In our society, we're having a huge problem with respect and appreciation of people and their art and talent. Everyone praises the almighty dollar. But the almighty dollar will never be what a friend or artist can be.
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
He has been involved in profound questions questions of religion, of life and death, of art versus life, of the ability of art to propose questions about life or even be relevant.
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas the interest of science lies in the art of making science.
I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.
The First Lady set this up as a nonprofit organization to raise money for the collection of antique furniture in the mansion. It's one of the premier collections in the country it belongs to the people of Georgia and is falling apart. She didn't go to the Legislature and ask for public dollars. People wanted to support the arts and the mansion.
People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them.
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.
I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.
I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
Truth is the secret of eloquence and virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and of life.
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day.
Art is eternal, but life is short.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of ''quaint,'' and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.
Now, there are people that are Christian artists, because they have a purpose to be evangelical for Christ. I don't feel I've been called to that yet. Now, that could change. There's no telling what kind of call God will put on my life.
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.
Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.
Business often does a good job supporting communities the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that are enlightened in their home bases see Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia as places to exploit natural resources or use cheap labor.
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