“I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.”
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“You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.”
“Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?”
“A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.”
“Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.”
“I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.”
“The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.”
“Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.”
“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.”
“A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.”
“Medicine is not only a science it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.”
“I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.”
“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.”
“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”
“I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.”
“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.”
“Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.”
“Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.”
“Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.”
“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 not a pastime but a priesthood.”
“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”
“As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.”
“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”