You don’t make art out of good intentions. – Gustave Flaubert
You don’t make art out of good intentions. – Gustave Flaubert
There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love. – W.H. Auden
There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love. – W.H. Auden
Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas. – E.A. Bucchianeri
Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas. – E.A. Bucchianeri
I am an artist you know … it is my right to be odd. – E.A. Bucchianeri
I am an artist you know … it is my right to be odd. – E.A. Bucchianeri
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; — not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself. – Henry David Thoreau
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; — not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself. – Henry David Thoreau
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man. – Maxim Gorky
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man. – Maxim Gorky
Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the thing itself. from the book, On Retranslating A Russian Classic Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy – Joel Carmichael
Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the thing itself.
from the book, On Retranslating A Russian Classic Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy – Joel Carmichael
Oh! to shoot for the stars if feels right. Aim for my heart if it feels right. – Maroon 5
Oh! to shoot for the stars if feels right. Aim for my heart if it feels right. – Maroon 5
Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art. – Konstantin Stanislavski
Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art. – Konstantin Stanislavski
To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes. – Akira Kurosawa
To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes. – Akira Kurosawa
It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down…. – Kate Morton
It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down…. – Kate Morton
Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure. – George Eliot
Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure. – George Eliot