Walter Pater Quotes
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.Walter Pater
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the art of the next best.
Otto von Bismarck -
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
Lady Bird Johnson -
I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.
Rachel Nichols -
Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
Fernando Botero -
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
Natalie Goldberg -
My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
Patricia Polacco
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The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.
Washed Out -
The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.
Garry Shandling -
It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
Kate Micucci -
They're not poodles, they're art.
Rachael Leigh -
Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
Damien Hirst -
Quality that significantly exceeds the customer's expectations doesn't seem to pay off. This 'delight the customer' stuff isn't rewarding. One has to be careful about delighting customers too often, because it sort of reshapes customer expectations.
Tahl Raz
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When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
Mae Jemison -
I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
Gallagher -
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West -
Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
Umberto Eco -
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
Maggie Nelson -
Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
Katarina Witt
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My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
Adam Rapp -
Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.
Armand Hammer -
You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.
Byron Katie -
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
Walter Pater