Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, i….

And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul..

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite ….

There is no such thing as death..

I think competition in any kind of activity like music, art, literature - anything that's not done with a timer - is actually impossible. So, in effe….

in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call th….

"The "art of tea" is a spiritual force for us to share.".

Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that ….

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement..

Any woman is sexual, absolutely..

Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elit….

I think that all art is socially conscious. There is no alternative. Whatever we produce contains a political and social statement. There's no way to….

There is no other art medium like tattooing in the world. When the customer comes in with a basic idea, it is up to me to design and translate that i….

Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form..

Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us bac….

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting..

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising..

Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real chal….

Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artis….

Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve..

What makes a sentence, a phrase, a moment, or a scene delightful? Something about recognizing the truth in it, hearing the music in it, understanding….