Pastoral Resources

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.