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“There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.”

Chance Study Painting Fine Exciting Drawing Texture

Author:John French Sloan

“We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be our duty to foster especially literature and the fine arts ... next to knowledge and true worship of the Creator, nothing is better or more useful to mankind than such studies.”

Art Government Next Literature Church Study Mankind Objects Duty Fine Worship Creator Devoted Extensions Fine Arts True Worship

Author:Pope Leo X

“In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.”

Art Study Fine Fine Arts

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

“I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily”

Long Hard Actors Study Fine Fame Adulation

Author:Mickey Rourke

“... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.”

Knows Way Should Mind Kind Art Light Certain Study Fine Feminine Fine Arts Lightness

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws everywhere, in any practice of photography. Traditional genres in particular-journalism, documentary studies, and fine-art photography-have become shells, or forms emptied of meaning.”

“Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”

Ifs Men Should Mind Littles Reason Feelings Beautiful Spirit Song Culture Speak Grows Perfect Study Fine Ought Method Senses Impression Reasonable Faculty

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that, fine." When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, "Fine, but study welding just in case."”

Ifs Want Said Actors Father Parent Cases Study Nice Childhood Fine Really Nice Welding

Author:Robin Williams

“I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.”

Children War Political Politics Study Painting Fine My Children Commerce Agriculture Practicality Fine Things

Author:John Adams

“I think that education works up to a certain point... I think unless I wanted to be like a nurse, or a doctor, or something that required that kind of knowledge, then education is fine. But I didn't really know what I wanted to do, so I didn't see the point in spending seven more years of my life studying something.”

Thinking Knows Years Kind Wanted Certain Study Fine Doctors Seven Spending Nurse

Author:Lily Allen

“Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like to properly study fine art. I think it would be quite an interesting endeavor.”

Thinking Art Sometimes Would Be Three Interesting Morning Study Seeing Painting Fine Clock Endeavor Throwing Fine Arts Throwing Things

Author:Ben Schnetzer

“The single most important thing is to know the game. Study the history of the game, the fine points of the game, and the personalities of the game so you'll be able to recognize what they're doing out there and then you'll be able to anticipate certain things that are going to happen.”

Knows Important Happens Able Certain Games Study Fine Personality Important Things Anticipate

Author:Marty Glickman