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

• 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

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

  

  Lenora Crichlow
  • Art

• I'm obsessed with 'The Americans.' It's one of my favorite shows. I also love 'Baskets' - low-brow, high-art comedy.

  

  Jay Duplass
  • Art
  • High
  • Comedy

• I do think of 'The Idiot,' in a way, as a self-standing book about a certain struggle to make meaning, the struggle for a girl to find meaning outside of the romance plot.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Book
  • Girl
  • Struggle

• I think art always comments on the time and place it was created.

  

  Dee Rees
  • Time
  • Art

• In my experience, people looking for progress aren't actually looking to move things forward. They're looking to be perceived in a certain way: as a forward thinker. It's about vanity rather than any altruistic motives for the art.

  

  James Murphy
  • People
  • Art
  • Experience

• And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

  

  John B. S. Haldane
  • Art
  • Science

• My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Art
  • Wife
  • Film

• The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.

  

  Arthur Henderson
  • World
  • Great
  • Peace

• One wonders how the literary revisionists and canon cleansers can bear to take the money. Imagine a school of sixteenth century art criticism that spent its time contently jeering at the past for not knowing about perspective.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Time
  • School
  • Money

• Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

  

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser
  • Long
  • Art
  • Freedom

• Then she laughed, a bubbling, deliciously girlish laugh, and the Thing relaxed its hold on her heart, turned up its toes, and died.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Heart
  • Laugh
  • Relaxed

• Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Good
  • Music
  • Career

• When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • You
  • First
  • Fame

• 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