Paul Kane Quotes

The struggle between art and mastery is like the struggle between spontaneity and persistence. When they become one, it is indeed rare and hard won.

Paul Kane

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• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Art
  • Happiness

• I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Work
  • Art
  • Elegance

• Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Me
  • Start

• In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Education
  • Materialism

• Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Music
  • Art
  • Fashion

• Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Art
  • Know
  • Respect

• All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Art

• 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Science

• Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • You
  • See

• I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Game

• If you live out of a negative identity, … others will always be cast in the mold of the enemy against whom you must struggle.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Live
  • Struggle
  • Enemy

• Art is man’s metaphysical mirror; what a rational man seeks to see in that mirror is a salute; what an irrational man seeks to see is a justification – even if only a justification of his depravity, as a last convulsion of his betrayed self-esteem.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Art
  • Mirror

• Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

  

  Logic
  • Art
  • May
  • Confidence

• Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on one hand, and on the other the spectator who later becomes the posterity; to all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Time
  • Important
  • Art

• The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Work
  • Art
  • Faith

• I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end up doing are my real choices. I do the best things I'm offered.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • Science
  • Humanity
  • Struggle

• I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.

  

  Lenora Crichlow
  • Art

• I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Time
  • Long
  • Experience

• I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat me like a regular person, which is what I wanted.

  

  Emma Watson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Famous

• I'm happy to have L.A.M.B. participate in the PSP accessories show as I've always loved designing bags and accessories, It's all about creativity at the end of the day, whether you're talking about fashion, technology or music, and that's what my L.A.M.B. bags are about.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Happy
  • Fashion
  • Creativity

• You know for years, I've heard financial experts stress the importance of teaching your kids about money, but it wasn't until I saw my own son's perspective change that I became a true believer.

  

  LZ Granderson
  • Money
  • Kids
  • True

• Life is just a flick of the fingers. Let's face it. And any little bit - you can expand it or enrich it, I think you want to push that and do it.

  

  Peter Beard
  • Life

• The struggle between art and mastery is like the struggle between spontaneity and persistence. When they become one, it is indeed rare and hard won.

  

  Paul Kane
  • Art
  • Struggle
  • Mastery