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Art
«Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.»
«Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Art,
Excellence
| Keywords:
acted, excellence, habit, habituation, In Training, repeatedly, rightly, training, virtue, won
«Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.»
Author: Allen Ginsberg
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
Art of War, endeavoring, fortunately, interpret, select, spiritualize, spiritualized, The Art of War
«Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.»
Author: Ingrid Bergman
(Actress)
| About:
Art,
Conscience,
Dreams,
Feelings,
Movies,
Music
| Keywords:
Dark Room, deep down, directly, film, passes, rooms, The Dark Room
«Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
fine, fine art, fine arts, go together, the Hand
«For those that see subject matter in paintings as static are not only missing the story behind the work, they are mssing out on how form can be reinterpreted and how our use of composition and perspective has been altered as time goes on.»
«Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art,
Children,
Imagination,
Innocence
| Keywords:
grow up
«Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Adventure,
Art
| Keywords:
adventure, expression, production
«Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Art,
Business,
Experience,
Principles
| Keywords:
business community, Establishing, The academy, tic, tics