Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: art

If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively. In London, it's all about color because the weather is so gray, and in that cold light they look beautiful.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

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.

Art is anything you can get away with.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.

Great artists suffer for the people.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

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.

Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else's life. That's what's fun about sharing art.

It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is more well done than that.'

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.