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  • I was always an emotional, tearful kid. As a child I was really focussed on my fine art - I took it very seriously. I really wanted to be a master painter. I didn't think I'd ever become a musician because I was so shy.

    Art   Children   Kids  
    Source: thequietus.com
  • Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in the fine art of conciliating, balancing and interpreting the forces and factions of public opinion, an art essential to keeping our nation united and enabling our Government to function.

    Art   Government   Today  
  • What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting.

  • There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms.

    James Gurney (2009). “Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist”, p.12, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • I like the idea of my art being a covetable object; I like preciousness. A lot of art seems to flaunt its throw-away character... But you have to sail out into the dangerous sea of fine art with these crafted works.

    Art   Character   Sea  
  • If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and story.

    "A Conversation with Dorothy Allison". Interview with Renée Olander, www.awpwriter.org. October 2002.
  • A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.

    Beauty   Beautiful   Art  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.529, Library of America
  • I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.

    Art   School   People  
  • Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

    Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”
  • The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

    Mother   Art   Father  
  • The devil is not fighting religion. He's too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. We are plainly told in the Scriptures that in the last days men will not endure sound doctrine and will depart from the faith and heap to themselves teachers to tickle their ears. We live in an epidemic of this itch, and popular preachers have developed “ear-tickling” into a fine art.

    Christian   Teacher   Art  
  • Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

    Life   Beauty   Beautiful  
  • Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

    Art   Truth   Lying  
    The Arts, May 1923
  • Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

    Music   Dance   Running  
  • A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the best technical photographs, and as creative as any of the best fine-art photographs. [...] I don't want to just be a photo essayist; I'm more interested in single images...ones that I feel are good enough to stand on their own.

  • That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation.

    Running   Art   Real  
    Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.92, Profile Books
  • We are not simply intellectual creatures. We wish to make love, to enjoy a gourmet dinner, to jog in the park, to cheer lustily at a ball game, to engage in spirited conversation with our friends, to play bridge or tennis, travel to exotic places, struggle with others to build a better world, and to enjoy the arts. The arts are so vital because they help to make life worth living. Music, poetry, literature, paintings, dance, and the theater are among our richest joys...The fine arts contribute immeasurably to the good life and that is why we cherish them.

    Art   Good Life   Cheer  
  • There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.

    Music   Art   Learning  
  • High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.

    Art   Finance   Burglary  
  • I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values.

    Spiritual   Art   Believe  
    "Contemporary Architects". Book by Muriel Emanuel and Dennis Sharp, 1980.
  • Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

    Art   Hate   Creativity  
    Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol (2003). “Warhol Memoir”
  • Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.

    Art   Fear   Fall  
  • A lot of people thought I got famous as a studio artist, then decided to cash in on it. But it actually was just a matter of survival for many years, and I felt it was really important for me to be able to say whatever I wanted with my street art and fine art.

    Art   Years   People  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas. They inspire liberal feelings, create a harmony of temper, favorable to a sense of justice and a habit of moderation in our social intercourse.

    Education   Art   Ideas  
  • For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

    Art   Games   Long  
  • Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.

    Art   Philosophy   Lasts  
  • Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.

    Art   Long   Wonderful  
  • Filmmaking can be a fine art.

    Movie   Art   Actors  
  • The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

    Art   School   Successful  
    Source: sydbarrett.net
  • I lived through being pooh-poohed by fine art galleries, saying, "Digital is going to destroy the meaning behind photos." The motion side, the moment all of the cameras come alive with that motion, it was like a dream come true. It enables people to economically experiment with film.

    Dream   Art   People  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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