“Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.” ArtCareArtistChoicesArt IsDetailsInventionPerpetualExecutionExquisite Author:Theophile Gautier
“What is dangerous about the far right is not that it takes religion seriously - most of us do - but rather that it condemns all other spiritual choices - the Buddhist, the Jew, the Muslim, and many others who consider themselves to be good Christians. The wall of separation between church and state is needed precisely because religion, like art, is too important a part of the human experience to be choked by the hands of censors.” HumansArtImportantStatesHandsChristianSpiritualReligionChoicesChurchDangerousWallNeededArt IsJewBe GoodSeparationBuddhistHuman ExperienceChurch And StateGood ChristianSeparation Between Church And State Author:Barbra Streisand
“Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice.” ArtProblemChoicesImaginationCreativeActivitySolutionsArt IsIntuitionDefinedEngineeringEngineersIndifferentDeliberateInvolvingCivil EngineerCivil Engineering Author:Ove Arup
“The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.” MenGivingArtChoicesDifficultHe ManHighestCapableArt IsChosen Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.” PeopleIfsArtChoicesPaintingArt IsCommunicateLife And Time Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind. It's a cliché for a reason - we all kind of work our own paths through the woods. There are not a lot of paths through the woods for someone who sings, plays the cello, and wants to tour on a human scale and create change in the world. I'm on my own path. It's pretty awesome.” WorldWantHumansKindArtReasonPlayChoicesMy OwnBehindsPathArt IsWoodsScalesWho I AmAll KindsFootsteps Author:Ben Sollee
“The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind.” WorldArtReasonChoicesBehindsArt IsWho I AmFootsteps Author:Ben Sollee
“Personal evolution has nothing to do with art, it's never. Art is a sine curve: dark and light change permanently, in cumulative radicalism. Art decides what to do. The choice of colors is made by the colors themselves. The evolution of art is the evolution of the future itself.” ArtChoicesDarkEvolutionArt Is Author:Jonathan Meese
“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly that we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing.” WorldArtChoicesFictionVisionDangerExerciseArt IsChaosAccomplishTriumphPerceiveMistakenSelectionVigilant Book:Collected Stories Source: Collected Stories
“Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.” ArtChoicesActingStageArt IsViolentChairsAngle Author:Anne Bogart