“A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.” ThinkingArtMatterBeautifulEmotionIndustryDisciplineTasteSkillsArt IsProportionWorks Of ArtBeautiful Thoughts Book:The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh Source: The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh
“Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.” FirstsHumansArtBeautifulPiecesSkillsEvidenceVery GoodBeautiful ThingsFormation Book:Selections and Essays Source: Selections and Essays
“Every track has its challenges, but Suzuka is a continuous test of a drivers skills, and I think thats what makes it so beautiful to drive.” ThinkingBeautifulChallengesSkillsTestsTrackDrivers Author:Romain Grosjean
“A strategist is one who helps people relax into their creative skills. People won't rally unless an idea is beautiful... Everyone is hanging on every word... Amazing.” PeopleIdeasHelpingBeautifulCreativeSkillsRelaxStrategistHanging On Author:Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
“Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned to making pretty pictures. Dramatic clouds and sifting light can overwhelm more mundane information. Yet who can resist beautiful landscape pictures of one kind or another? Not I.” KindSometimesLightBeautifulReadingGivenInformationSkillsPhotographerPhotographCloudsContemporaryLandscapeDramaticBuriedMundaneSiftingPretty PictureBeautiful Landscapes Author:Lucy R. Lippard
“[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music.” ThinkingKindTodayBeautifulSkillsTunesComposerTranslateMagnificentChamberReally BeautifulChamber Music Author:Leonard Cohen
“I have a variety of ways that I make music, but I'm working with the Thingamajigs in a particular way, which is: They are bringing to me their performance skills and their unusual instruments, which I'm relishing. They're really beautiful. The other thing is improvisation - these players improvise and they do it very beautifully, as a matter of fact.” WayMatterFactsBeautifulPlayerParticularSkillsPerformancesInstrumentsVarietyUnusualImprovisationMatter Of FactVery BeautifulReally Beautiful Author:Pauline Oliveros
“It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired her.” FeelingsBeautifulCreativitySkillsInspiredPracticals Book:The Friday Night Knitting Club Source: The Friday Night Knitting Club
“Taro came into the room, strands of hair flying free of the tie at the back of his skull, sweat plastering his cream-colored shirt against his chest and back. I wished I had an artist's skill, that I could make renderings of him in all his states of beauty. He would never want to look at them, or even know about them. I would just like them for myself. Maybe he would want to see them when he was much older, and beautiful in a different way.” KnowsWayWantLooksDifferentStatesBeautifulArtistRoomsHairSkillsFlyingDifferent WaysShirtsTiesChestsSweatCreamSkullsStrandsRenderingFlying Free Author:Moira J. Moore