“There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.”
Quotes about art
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“Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.”
“Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.”
“Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.”
“It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.”
“I'm not interested in pop art.”
“Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.”
“In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.”
“Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.”
“An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.”
“Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.”
“As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.”
“I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.”
“People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.”
“It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.”
“And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.”
“Originality is the art of concealing your source.”
“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.”
“The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.”
“I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.”
“Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.”
“When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.”
“A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.”
“It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.”