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Letter "F" » fine arts
«Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acknowledges, fine art, fine arts, impotence, including, irrelevance, irresponsibility, parcel, parcels, parcel out, rumpus, rumpus room, The Practice
«Blank face is fine.the computer works faster than the brain,don't forget.The art of acting is not to act.Once you show them more,what you show them,in fact is bad acting.»
«Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
arts, fine art, fine arts, ministers, rank, rankest
«'The death of Valentino is a terrific loss to the screen. He brought it happiness, beauty, and art as perhaps no other has. His loss can never be replaced; there was and can be only one Valentino;a great artist and one of the finest gentlemen it has ever been my privilege to term friend.' -John Gilbert»
Author: Rudolph Valentino
| Keywords:
finest, fine art, fine arts, gentlemen, Gilbert, john, replaced, screen, terrific, The Finest, the screen
«Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.»
Author: Dr. Laurence J. Peter
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Originality
| Keywords:
fine art, fine arts, forgetting, originality, remembering
«All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.»
Author: Havelock Ellis
| About:
Lies
| Keywords:
Art of Living, fine, fine art, fine arts, holding, letting, mingles, mingling
«Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
fine, fine art, fine arts, go together, the Hand
«I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| Keywords:
awe, beyond measure, confusing, fine art, fine arts, grove, Heads or Tails, human head, In a Grove, maxim, roman, stricken, tail
«I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ''divine service.''»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
dancer, Divine, divine service, divine spirit, finally, fine, fine art, fine arts, good spirit, ideal, in good spirits, philosopher, piety, The Spirit
«A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.»
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