arts-and-humanities

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

You can__ enjoy art or books in a hurry.

Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.

She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or canvas before starting her next masterpiece. How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life!

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author__ intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don__ make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author__ mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, __hoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?_. Monet would be ripping his hair out.

If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

The modern tendency towards increasing specialization in all branches of research and scholarship has discouraged comparative studies of the arts; and what we seldom do we generally distrust. But our distrust of analogies was not shared by the sixteenth century, which inherited from antiquity a habit of drawing parallels as a matter of course.