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I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
“Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
Quote by -Emily Dickinson
Art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing
Quote by -Bruce Lee
Art is the way of the Absolute and to the essence of human life – creative action, with sensitivity, that positive state of innocence.
Quote by -Bruce Lee
Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.
Quote by -Bruce Lee
Art is the perfection of nature and life through the artist, who has supreme control of technique and is thereby liberated from it.
Quote by -Bruce Lee
Art is really the expression of the self. The more complicated and restricted the method, the less the opportunity for the expression of one’s original sense of freedom.
Quote by -Bruce Lee
Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity – art has no ego rigidity.
Quote by -Bruce Lee
Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.
Quote by -Bruce Lee
Through art our own souls are what we must employ to give a new form and a new meaning to Nature or the world.
Quote by -Bruce Lee
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
Quote by -Bruce Lee
What is your art? To be good. And how is this accomplished well except by general principles, some about the nature of the universe, and others about the proper constitution of man?
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
“The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.”
Quote by -Sun Tzu
Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
Quote by -Quentin Blake
Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
Quote by -Quentin Blake
“Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating.”
Quote by -Pope Francis
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Quote by -Henry James
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Quote by -Henry James
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
Quote by -Henry James
The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.
Quote by -Henry James
We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
Quote by -Henry James
Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.
Quote by -Henry James
Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.
Quote by -Henry James
Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone.
Quote by -Henry James
Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of
Quote by -Henry James
Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
Quote by -Henry James
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life - that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
Quote by -Henry James
In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject, may be outweighed in a poem, a novel, or a picture, by charm of manner, by ingenuity of execution; but in a drama the subject is of the essence of the work-it is the work. If it is feeble, the work can have no force; if it is shapeless, the work must be amorphous.
Quote by -Henry James
The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.
Quote by -Henry James
Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.
Quote by -Henry James