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“There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.”

Art Strong Given Black White Tradition Size Population Australia Black And White Cartoonist

Book:Oliphant's Anthem

Source: Oliphant's Anthem

“I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.”

People Writing Wells Art Artist Given Talent Elements Responsible Performing Craftsman Spiritualism Writing Well Performing Well

Author:Al Franken

“In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.”

Men Art Given Technology Greater Violence Habit Drug Prove Experiments Plague Initials Psych Specifications Irritants

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics lies in finding and taking as firm a grip as we can of the link that is least likely to be struck from our hands, the one that is most important at the given moment, the one that most of all guarantees its possessor the possession of the whole chain.”

Art Important Whole Moments Hands Running Political Lying Given Numbers Findings Infinite Possession Circles Endless Chains Firm Guarantees Links Vicious Political Life Vicious Circles

Book:What Is to Be Done?

Source: What Is to Be Done?

“The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.”

Way Mean Art Given Easy Ability Audience Influence Definite Convincing Impressive Graphic Presenting Propagandist

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“I can't get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It's no longer an effort--Pole--equator--oceans--continents--it's just a question of which way you point the nose of your plane. The pure joy of flight as an art has given way to the pure efficiency of flight as a science.... Science is insulating man from life -- separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetizes his senses so that he doesn't know what he's missing.”

Knows Men World Way Mind Art I Can Today Used Joy Given Effort Worst Missing Pure Ocean Senses Flight Planes Ease Noses Continents Efficiency World Today Separating Pure Joy Equator

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.”

World Art Given Modern Movement Color Discovery Importance Excess Violet Art World

Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.”

People Art Ends Sometimes Given Products Program Budgets Architect Schedules

Author:Frank Gehry

“You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful men. To please these men, all the private affections, all the public hopes, all that has been achieved in art, and knowledge and thought and all that might be achieved hereafter is to be wiped out forever. Our ruined lifeless planet will continue for countless ages to circle aimlessly round the sun unredeemed by the joys and loves, the occasional wisdom and the power to create beauty which have given value to human life.”

“Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.”

Way Inspirational Art Philosophy Moving Form Dies Literature Given Lines Circles Mechanism Compass Obesity Straight Lines Entropy Lifeless

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art , Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics (physical perfection; identity as a biological given) implies an ideal eroticism: sexuality converted into the magnetism of leaders and the joy of followers. The fascist ideal is to transform sexual energy into a "spiritual" force, for the benefit of the community.”

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.”

Persons Art Bigs School Given Business Failing Teaching Students Art School

Author:Stuart Pearson Wright

“The art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated; ... it demands much previous study; and ... the possession of it, in its most improved and perfect state, is always a great moment to the security of a nation. This, therefore, ought to be a serious care of every government; and for this purpose, an academy, where a regular course of instruction is given, is an obvious expedient, which different nations have successfully employed.”

Source: The speeches, addresses and messages, of the several presidents of the United States, at the openings of Congress and at their respective inaugurations: Also, the Declaration of independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's farewell address to his fellow-citizens

“Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?”

Art Country Suffering Humanity Given Pleasure Poor Acting Morality Photography Blessed Dear Casts My Time Absent Inventor Tolerable Dear Ones Chloroform

Author:Jane Welsh Carlyle

“Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in life, the artist is almost sure to end up by becoming a bellyacher, constantly complaining because the public does not rush forward at once to proclaim him.”

Should Doe Art Ends Artist Given Class Poverty Middle Becoming Comfortable Training Should Have Complaining Middle Class

Book:A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue

Source: A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue

“Language was not given to man: he seized it.”

Men Art Philosophy Language Given History

Author:Louis Aragon

“The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been given to them or withdrawn, but it will be found that there has often been more money lavished on them in their worst periods than in their best, and that the highest honours have frequently been bestowed on artists whose names are scarcely now known.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

“There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are given kind of one pathway to that dance, and that's why I'm a writer. It's the only way I can get there. I can't do it through art, I can't do it through singing, I can't do it through mothering, I can't do it through invention.”

Thinking Way Kind Art I Can Happens Given Singing Access Invention Pathways Mothering Spooky

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I think in all of the arts there are just certain people that have a gift. I think it's a certain spirituality, it's a God-given gift that just certain individuals have.”

People Thinking Art Certain Spirituality Individual Given

Author:Tony Bennett

“The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of the theory is to demonstrate these laws; it reduces all physical researches on the propagation of heat, to problems of the integral calculus, whose elements are given by experiment. No subject has more extensive relations with the progress of industry and the natural sciences; for the action of heat is always present, it influences the processes of the arts, and occurs in all the phenomena of the universe.”

“No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you and you're allowing it to pass through.”

Thinking World Long Art Ideas Moments Bigs Light Earth Spirit Artist Given Dark Opposites Innocence That Moment Allowing Within You Shaking Light And Dark Saying Yes Yes And No

Author:Milton Resnick

“Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice [of art itself]. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that what surrounds us in nature, until, in Neo-Plasticism, nature is no longer dominant. This achievement of balance may prepare the way for the fulfillment of man and signal the end of (what we call) art.”

Men Way May Art Ends Given Practice Creation Balance Achievement Harmony Contrary Surround Dominant Signals Fulfilment

Author:Piet Mondrian

“Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest, the term is sometimes taken to describe what is new at any given time: the leading edge of artistic experiment, which is continually outdated by the next step forward.”

Art Sometimes Form Next Given Term Steps Taken Type Edges Experiments Traditional Artistic Labels Simplest Next Steps Steps Forward Avant Garde Outdated

Book:Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992

Source: Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992

“Life teaches you the art of letting go in every event. When you have learnt to let go, you will be joyful and as you start being joyful, more will be given to you.”

Art Given Teach Events Letting Go Art Is Joyful Being Joyful Life Teaches

Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“I should say, a piece of advice that was given to me very early on by the principle of RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) which is where I went. When he auditioned me, he said, "Your speech, monologue, is fine. It's good. Yeah, I think you have ability but you're making it happen. Don't make it happen, let it happen." And that's a sort of subtle shift I think, as an actor.”

Thinking Should Art Said Happens Actors Given Ability Principles Pieces Advice Fine Speech Yeah Dramatic Subtle Royal Academy Make It Happen Monologues

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.”

Thinking Writing Long Art Important Book Ideas Use Together Given Loses Effects Personality Sight Impression Quotations Climax Art Of Writing

Author:George Eliot

“Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.”

Art Made Light Eye Faces Given Sides Grace Air Hair Curious Made It Seats Touched Shade Organs Hung Brightness Ivory

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.”

Giving May Art Form Purpose Given Pleasure Offers Art Is Take Time Sensibility Purpose Of Art

Author:Susan Sontag

“One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the twentieth century was that the twentieth century artist became more involved with personal expression than with celebrating exclusively the values of the society or the church. Along with this change came a broader acceptance of the belief that the artist can invent a reality that is more meaningful than the one that is literally given to the eye. I subscribe enthusiastically to this.”

“No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it. It's truly, I believe, one of the only art forms that America has actually given to the world, besides jazz and comic books.”

People Knows World Want Believe Art Book Matter America Form Given I Believe Watches Jazz Comic Comic Book Embarrassed

Author:CM Punk

“It is a question in that case of breaking up one piece of art, and whether that piece of art can be as best as possible put back together. So it's an argument to say, maybe that's one of those instances, like the bust of Nefertiti, I think that should be given back [Egyptian piece currently in Neues Museum in Berlin]. It's one of those pieces you look at and think that would probably be the right thing to do.”

Thinking Should Looks Art Together Given Cases Pieces Argument Instance Things To Do Right Thing Museums Berlin Back Together One Piece Egyptian Nefertiti

Author:George Clooney

“To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.”

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to fill up the gaps in human relationships made by international ambitions and greeds ... War will pass when intellectual culture and activity have made possible to the female an equal share in the governance of modern national life; it will probably not pass away much sooner; its extinction will not be delayed much longer.”

“In painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.”

World Want Trying Has Beens Art Ideas Facts Given Painting Logic Chaos Make Sense Doomed Pretentious

Author:Grace Hartigan

“Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.”

People Knows Way Art Feelings Literature Given Sex Loneliness Connected Isolation Relief

Author:Adrienne Rich

“But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual posture, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the habit of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage and mental soberness.”

“To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.”

Wells Art Self Enough Problem Artist Given Activity Self Worth

Author:David Bayles

“Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text to the category of poetry, the number of meaningful elements in it acquires the capacity to grow and the system of their combinations also becomes more complex.”

Art Poetry Certain Given Grows Numbers Elements Capacity Complexes Meaningful Combination Perceive Acquire Categories Restriction

Author:Yuri Lotman

“Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.”

Men Art Different Reality Order Given Effort Art Is Constant

Author:Chinua Achebe

“In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize.”

Source: Phenomenology of Spirit

“The art of medicine in the season lies: Wine given in season oft will benefit, Which out of season injures.”

Art Lying Given Healing Benefits Seasons Wine Medicine

Author:Ovid

“That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the actual circumstances of an event, the actual topography of a landscape--should be nothing without the form, the spirit of the handling, that this form, this mode of handling, should become an end in itself, should penetrate every part of the matter;Mthis is what all art constantly strives after, and achieves in different degrees.”

Should Art Different Ends Matter Form Spirit Poetry Given Situation Achieve Subjects Events Poet Circumstances Degrees Unity Mere Strive Instance Landscape Strife Penetrate Incidents Topography

Author:Walter Pater

“It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.”

Art Joy Spirit Artist Given Beauty Sorrow Calm Privilege Rhythm Horrific Cadence Prodigious

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“One of the great arts in living is to learn the art of accurately appraising values. Everything that we think, that we earn, that we have given to us, that in any way touches our consciousness, has its own value. These values are apt to change with the mood, with time, or because of circumstances. We cannot safely tie to any material value. The values of all material possessions change continually, sometimes over night. Nothing of this nature has any permanent set value. The real values are those that stay by you, give you happiness and enrich you. They are the human values.”

“Few enjoyments are given from the open and liberal hand of nature; but by art, labor and industry we can extract them in great abundance. Hence, the ideas of property become necessary in all civil society.”

Art Ideas Hands Given Industry Labor Property Prosperity Enjoyment Abundance Civil Society

Book:Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition

Source: Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition

“There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.”

“The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn't receive the same treatment as art in the sense of the value of what it is, especially nowadays when it's been devalued and diminished to almost the point that it has to be given away for free.”

Years Has Beens Art Ideas Values Given Music Is Treatment

Author:RZA

“To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for; This is to be a trickster; and to filch Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth, Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend, You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me, Is what, when done with a less dainty grace, Plain folks call "Theft.”

“Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.”

Men Art Death Dies Asks Given Answers Forever Creatures Instinct Vain Urges

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to learnsomething new here, since philosophy cannot and should not do anything further than develop the given art experiences and the existing art concepts into a science, improve the views of art, and promote them with the help of a thoroughly scholarly art history, and produce that logical mood about these subjects too which unites absolute liberalism with absolute rigor.”