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“When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.”

Long Art Stills Father Sculpture Inclination

Author:Moses Mendelssohn

“San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.”

Kind Long Art Film Artist Leader Generations Poet Painter Performing Novelists Makers San Francisco Playwright Nurturing Innovators Sculptors Performing Arts Performing Artist

Author:Gavin Newsom

“It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I’ve done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they’re always poems first.”

Writing Firsts Long Art Done Enough Song Painting Long Time Pursue Enough Time Had Enough

Author:Jason Newsted

“As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.”

Ifs Giving Believe Long Art Stills Paint Blank Canvas Blank Canvas

Author:Jake Owen

“Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be true to yourself and your musical vision. People have known me well for a long time, so if I was chasing a trend and doing something that wasn't authentic to who I am, they would know it in just a few seconds.”

“I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.”

Long Art Fans Art Is Concerned

Author:Donatella Versace

“If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.”

Ifs Years May Long Art Country Able Culture Imagination Christianity One Thing Capture

Author:Rowan Williams

“The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.”

Long Art Literature Term Comfortable Curious Long Term Uneasy High Art Literature And Music Long Term Marriage

Author:Will Self

“Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.”

Thinking Writing Long Art Philosophy Ought Art Is Paint Photographer Details Painter Ruins Forsake

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.”

People Should Trying Long Art Enough Enjoy Justice Art Is Criticism Filled Misery Photographer Speed Arguing Sympathetic

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.”

Thinking Feels Long Art Soul Moments Able Goal Ability Secret Oneness Readiness Realisation Inhale Siddhartha

Book:Siddhartha

Source: Siddhartha

“It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.”

Long Art Decision Long Time Retiring Ensemble Aikido

Author:Joseph Jarman

“Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer.”

Long Art Art Is

Author:William John Locke

“Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.”

Littles Long Art Laughing Bores Dementia Make You Laugh

Book:Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition

Source: Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition

“Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?”

Giving Long Art Might Speak Forget Thee Muse

Book:Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

“As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.”

Long Art Civilization Art Is Secure Insecurity Parlor Advanced Civilization

Book:The Political Writings

Source: The Political Writings

“All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.”

Ifs Long Art Religion Holy Art Is Miserable

Author:Robertson Davies

“The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.”

Way May Long Art Life Is Pay Attention Struggle Gone Willing Honor Long Time Paid Regard Notes Rewards Privilege Creator Sensible Citing Art Life

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance. As soon as you can, place yourself under the guidance of a master, and remain with him as long as possible.”

Mind Long Art Accepting Masters Perseverance Noble Profession Enthusiasm Obedience Guidance Reverence

Author:Cennino Cennini

“One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.”

Way Long Art Novel Taste Standards Art Is Innovation Critics Conviction Significant One Way Firm Provocation Standards Set

Author:Leo Steinberg

“Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.”

Long Art

Author:Spider Robinson

“When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Long Art Enough Form Used Culture Fields First Time Appreciation Make Sense Modernism

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no choice but to carry long spoons and sup there.”

Believe Long Art Hands Artist Choices Devil Remains Commerce Marketplace Spoons E Commerce Henchmen

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or modern, moves us aesthetically only in so far as it possesses a force over and beyond its aspect.”

Long Art Moving Force Nature Deals Emotion Modern Painting Highest Aspect Ancient Objectives Aesthetic

Author:Lawren Harris

“In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In a delta there is no clear direction but there may be many choices. The best we can do is to enjoy the choices that we have and to be genuinely and creatively eclectic.”

May Long Art Ends Choices Enjoy Can Do Clear Progress Flow Art And Science Eclectic Delta Clear Direction

Author:Robert Bateman

“Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association of music and math has, in fact, long been noted. Creating and performing music promotes self-expression and provides self-gratification while giving pleasure to others. In medicine, increasing published reports demonstrate that music has a healing effect on patients. For all these reasons, it deserves strong support in our educational system, along with the other arts, the sciences, and athletics.”

“If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.”

Ifs Want Needs Writing Long Art Matter Motivational Creating Draws Paint Cooks Engines Cultivating Collages

Book:The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“Obviously, comedy, or art in general, or television, or whatever you want to call it's all subjective. But I do like to know what people are thinking. I don't know how long I'll keep doing that. As it goes on and on, I might become more fearful of it. For the time being, I'm not opposed to reading what people write.”

People Thinking Knows Want Writing Long Art Might Reading Know How Comedy Television Goes On Fearful Subjective

Author:Charlie Day

“An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.”

Knows Should Long Art Lasts Artist Values Shock Art History Shock Value

Author:Robert Longo

“Perfume has a long and fascinating history and the beautifully crafted bottles used to store it over the centuries demonstrate its importance. Each has mirrored the latest tastes in fashion technology, design and art.”

Long Art Used Technology Century Fashion Design Taste Importance Stores Fascinating Bottles Perfume Design And Art

Author:Judith Miller

“If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?”

Ifs Long Art Stuff Forget Company Successful Records Four Painting Equal Lawyer Forget It Gallery Record Companies Patron Leonardo Publicists

Author:Debbie Harry

“How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.”

Years Long Art Process Twenties Rational Take Me Hesitation Methodical

Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“I'm discovering there are innumerable ways to package, promote and sell my humor, as long as I reserve a little for myself to keep bouncing back and laughing off the rejections that are also part of the art of cartooning.”

Way Littles Long Art Laughing Humour Sells Rejection Discovering Reserves Packages

Author:Mark Evelyn Heath

“History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.”

People Long Has Beens Art Left Brain Creating Long Time Modernism Creating Art Left Brain

Author:David Luiz

“Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.”

Long Art Language Information Nonverbal

Author:Betty Edwards

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