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Art

«The conditions you need to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same conditions you need to be a good sculptor. You must have a very good connection, in both professions, with time and space.»
«The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.»
«The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.»
Author: Ralph Ellison | About: Art | Keywords: ambiguities, ambiguity, blues
«The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.»
Author: Thomas Eakins | About: Art, Artist, Nature | Keywords: steals
«The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.»
«The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone»
«The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.»
Author: Michelangelo | About: Art | Keywords: artists, conception, contain
«The best of artists hath no thought to show, which the rough stone in its superfluous shell, doth not include; to break the marble spell, is all the hand that serves the brain can do.»
Author: Michelangelo | About: Art | Keywords: include, serves, shell, superfluous
«The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.»
«The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament»