#art

"At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale the inspiration of a poet, the research of a scientist, the good taste of an artist, the gourmet’s fondness for good food, and the love of flowers, which concealed in their delicate shadows a hint of the love of women"

"Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity."

"We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause."

"The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…"

"Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul."

"The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle."

"I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go."

"When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules."

"العلم يكتشف أما الفن فيبدع. إن ضوء النجم البعيد الذي إكتشفه العلم كان موجودا قبل إكتشافه, أما الضوء الذي يلقيه الفن علينا ، فقد أبدعه الفن بنفسه في اللحظة نفسها."

"I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt."

"The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine"

"To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes."

"Listen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art."

"One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge."

"I feel robbing a bank would be the highest form of performance art. No need to pay to see me work. The Federal Reserve is subsidizing it."

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."

"The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist"

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

"Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her."