Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: art

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it.

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.

There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Art is what you can get away with.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.