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“But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it’s that private perpetual struggle. Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are.”

“People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.”

People Art Beautiful Form Like Me Insane Tattoo Trash Sailor Don't Like Me

Author:Megan Fox

“And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.”

People Humans Art Form Understanding Human Beings Journey Art Is Who We Are

Author:Wendell Pierce

“There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.”

Art Made Different Together Form Artist Type Becoming Argument Definite Videogame

Author:John Romero

“I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.”

Knows Art Stills Shows Form Literature Games Computer Someday Opera Puppets Computer Games Puppet Shows

Author:Fred Saberhagen

“It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their art, their psychology, their thought forms, their lingual structures, their history, their present moment, their future ideas, and the quality of their emotions.”

Art Ideas Moments Form Humanity Individual Easy Levels Emotion Quality Psychology Groups Buddhism Behavior Structure Present Moment Examining

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Stage performing is a dying art form.”

Art Form Stage Dying Performing

Author:Ronnie Spector

“Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.”

Mind Humans Wells Kind Art Character Helping Body Form Term Human Beings Acting Grace Communicate Your Body Former Dancer Ballet Conjunctions

Author:Zoe Saldana

“Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.”

Thinking Want Art Play Character Form Fun Challenges Dark Acting Roles

Author:James Franco

“Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.”

Art Stories Form Cutting Information Discipline Messages Tiny Advertising

Author:Dick Wolf

“Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There is a desperate need for creative Christians to redeem the visual arena from both forms of excess, cutting through all the false glamour, tawdry baseness and dense obfuscation.”

“As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry, that is acutely undernourished. One might go so far as to say that Protestants in particular suffer from a form of visual anorexia. It is not that there is a lack of visual stimuli, but rather a lack of wholesomeness of form and content amidst the all-pervasive sensory overload.”

Art Might Today Form Suffering Culture Christianity Particular Hungry Visuals Appetite Stimulus Protestants Anorexia Sensory Visual Art Overload Wholesomeness

Author:John Walford

“It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.”

Art Film Form Pure Entertainment Disappointing

Author:Richard Linklater

“The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.”

Art Film Form Industry Pure Resources Financial Tension Financial Resources

Author:Ann Macbeth

“I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.”

Thinking World Should Art Important Country Kids School Form Used Lost Music Is Jazz Used To Be Exposed Lost Art Music In Schools

Author:Chrisette Michele

“Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.”

Humans Mean Has Beens Art Form Sacrifice Towns Raised

Author:Dick Morris

“What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.”

Trying Art Form Building Shapes Construction

Author:Peter Zumthor

“Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.”

“For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.”

Art Form Evil Fun

Author:Gregory Maguire

“Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be seen as a form of public art.”

Thinking Way Art Form Corporate Clothings Viral Public Art

Author:Jim Drain

“Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements - ideally corresponded to a form of expression I could transpose in a perfume. The smell of a rose early in the morning, damp, sprinkled with dew, delicate and light.”

Art Light Beautiful Form Morning Cutting Expression Flower Elements Rose Smell Traditional Delicate Perfume Dew Damp Arranging Minimalist Bouquets Japanese Art

Author:Jean-Claude Ellena

“The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.”

Art Today Form Suffering Middle Interviews Desperate Sunday Hereafter Brows Broadsheet

Author:Peter York

“Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.”

World Art Today Form Impossible Size France Cinema Representing

Author:Jean-Jacques Annaud

“I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.”

Way Art Form Technology Fascinated Keyboards Juxtaposition

Author:Geoff Downes

“Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.”

Should Art Form Levels Cooking Accepted

Author:Julia Child

“To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.”

May Mean Art Feelings Form Sound Lines Movement Color Expression Activity Oneself Evoke

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.”

Art Form Actors Emotion Emotional Art Is Abuse Dramatic Masturbation Cathartic Acting From Actors

Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

“The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.”

Men Mind May Art Eye Form Hours Walks Wise Meditation Genius Solitude Tables Calm Crowds Folly Distraction Artificial Retired Assembly

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively, then it is art.”

Ifs Mind Art Form Language Conscious Connections Logic Conscious Mind Volition

Author:Albert Einstein

“O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?”

Men Art Soul Shows Form Degrees Creating Awe Show Me Ceremony Adoration

Book:King Henry V: Third Series

Source: King Henry V: Third Series

“Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.”

World Art Form Seeing Multiple

Book:Cities of the Plain

Source: Cities of the Plain

“And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.”

Ifs Knows Way Art Play Form Artist Sound Knowing Taken Subjects Goes On Art Is Representation

Author:Plato

“All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.”

Art Form Technology Media Assumption Imposing New Media

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.”

Art Form Lying Views Point Of View Abstract Concrete Convincing

Book:Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

“No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid.”

Ifs Knows Art Form Artist Mistake Doubt Strength No Doubt Recognizing Stimulus Accompany

Author:Pablo Picasso

“A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.”

Men Heart Art Eye Form Brain Art Is Works Of Art Nerves Interiors

Author:Edvard Munch

“Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.”

Art Form Rocks Stones Sculpture

Book:The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

“It is an art form to hate New York City properly. So far I have always been a featherweight debunker of New York; it takes too much energy and endurance to record the infinite number of ways the city offends me.”

Way Art Form Hate Energy Numbers Cities Records Too Much New York Infinite Endurance New York City

Book:The Prince of Tides: A Novel

Source: The Prince of Tides: A Novel

“The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.”

Art Stories Light Form Literature Individual Deals Short Story Compelled Inner Light

Author:Frank O'Connor

“Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman.”

Art Ideas Form Beauty Expression Materials Elements Understood Art Is Feminine Feminine Beauty Women Beauty

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“A white lace curtain on the window was for me as important as a great work of art. This gossamer quality, the reflection, the form, the movement. I learned more about art from that than I did in school.”

Art Important School Form White Quality Movement Reflection Window Works Of Art Curtains Great Work Lace

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.”

Ifs Art Truth Form Honesty Listeners Kidding Yourself

Author:Billy Joel

“It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.”

Men World Art Form Courses Office Tyranny Alternatives Spotlight Pistols

Author:Theodor Adorno

“There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.”

Art Film Form Common Emotion Music Intellect

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied by distortion of the natural form. For, therein is nature reborn.”

Art Form Natural Results Creativity Creation Art Is Dimensions Works Of Art Entering Distortion Reborn Pictorial Natural Forms

Author:Paul Klee

“Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.”

Thinking May Art Ideas Form Belief Attitude Materials Impact Endure Arise

Book:Ben Shahn: Paintings and Graphics : [exhibition] Santa Barbara Museum of Art, July 30, 1967-September 10, 1967; La Jolla Museum of Art, October 5, 1967-November 12, 1967 ; Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, December 3, 1967-January 3, 1968

Source: Ben Shahn: Paintings and Graphics : [exhibition] Santa Barbara Museum of Art, July 30, 1967-September 10, 1967; La Jolla Museum of Art, October 5, 1967-November 12, 1967 ; Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, December 3, 1967-January 3, 1968

“No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture - what is represented. To one who feels the language of pictorial form, all depends on how it is presented, nothing on what.”

Feels Art Real Form Language Understanding Subjects Painting Depends Importance Pictorial

Book:A Roger Fry Reader

Source: A Roger Fry Reader

“The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out the detail according to his own particular imagination... but a painter, when he represents Eve on canvas, is obliged to give a determined form, and his own idea of beauty distinctly expressed.”

Giving Wells Art Ideas Form Used Imagination Particular Reader Details Determined Painter Canvas Obliged

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.”

Art Form Classical Art

Author:Robin G. Collingwood

“Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper.”

Needs Writing Art Film Form Pieces Rocks Painting Paper Picks Sticks Pens Pencils Sculpture Chalk

Author:Forest Whitaker