Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: art

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art. But I genuinely want to change the world. I'm very generous, and I really want people to see that I am - that's really it.

I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art.

I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.

Every single day, I wake up and take a glimpse of where I am now compared to where I was before, and the work that we have all put in to be in this space. I think of that, and being able to express myself through my art and show up and be present - that's activism, advocacy, and artistry in itself.

Cinema is an art form, a result of dedication of a number of people.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent it feels.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.

I played football for a long time when I was a kid, and then I went to art college and turned my back on it. Because of that, my toes are mangled; they've been broken. They're like hooves or talons. They're disgusting. I'd never get them out.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Surprise is key in all art.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.