Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo PicassoTags: art attributed-no-source
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich NietzscheArt never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: art reading writing fiction craft
What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
Willa CatherTags: art
Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue.
Jeanette WintersonTags: art art-objects
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.
Thomas Henry HuxleyTags: science art rome ancient-greece despicable early-christianity greece jurisprudence political-science science-vs-religion
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard ShawTags: art
When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Pablo PicassoTags: art confidence
The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…
Dione LucasDeliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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