The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed... because people are changed by art _ enriched, ennobled, encouraged _ they then act in a way that may affect the course of events... by the way they vote, they behave, the way they think.
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Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.
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!
My exercise regime is a mix of gymming, marital arts, sports, etc.
Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.
It's quite simple. I just don't feel right without a pen in my hand denting a hole through my notepad.
I don__ want to re-write the same old book with the same tired techniques. I__ rather bring something new to the table that__ true to me and that people will have a genuine reaction to. That__ the whole point, isn__ it?
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.
It's very hard to reach people in Greymouth with pottery or any form of art because they're allergic to it. Allergic to it ever since they began really because they've taken from the ground in the mining spirit without making or creating, and therefore anything that is creative they do not understand.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom." (first published 1937)]
He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have acquired an entirely different kind of culture, literary or artistic, for which their professional specialisation has no use but by which their conversation profits.
Artists are social sensors and transmitters of ideas
The beauty of art is that it comes from the heart.
In America, applause is won only by physical exertion.
The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.
A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.
Give a poet a pen
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