In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject, may be outweighe….
Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowes….
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant..
If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning.... The creative process shrivels in the absence of conti….
To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations an….
Ultimately, leadership is more about 'being' than 'doing.'.
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of worki….
It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art..
The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy; it is an al….
Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things..
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whate….
Art without life is a poor affair..
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my father….
One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of nature, but the grandchild. It is a….
Sri Chinmoy was a once in a lifetime spiritual leader who touched the lives of millions of people through his teachings, art, athletics, and music. H….
The unread is always better than the unreadable..
So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid..
This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go..
Didacticism is the death of art..
In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic..
The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voi….