Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: art

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture.

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

I believe art is a connection, like passing on a flame.

There is no must in art because art is free.

An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

London, thou art the flower of cities all!

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Art is science made clear.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Art is born of humiliation.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.