Quotes About Defining Art

#1. Defining art is huge; I feel like it's such a subjective thing. It's more like what's not art. You know what I mean? I think there can be an art in the way people live their lives, and art can be a gift someone gives to somebody.

Kathleen Hanna

#2. Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#3. There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.

Theodore Parker

#4. I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.

Laura Marling

#5. Defining your enterprise business capability is part art and part science, and building your business capabilities is more science than art.

Pearl Zhu

#6. Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at the very core of the life of a people, defining the spiritual and moral shape of that life.

Ivan Turgenev

#7. You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn't become a defining deal.

Greg Jackson

#8. Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

Barbra Streisand

#9. Well, I'm not defining good and bad art, except, that art that appeals to me or repels me is good. Art that bores me is bad.

Lucien Carr

#10. Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.

Walker Evans

#11. One of art's defining characteristics is its relevance to people's shared experiences and also to the reveries and internal dialogues of their interior lives.

Patrick McNaughton

#12. My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back.

Robbie Robertson

#13. I think the consensus among our generation and people younger than us is that we do have a defining challenge in the moment, so I do like being involved in something bigger than the finger-doodling I do in art. It stimulates your brain in certain ways.

Edward Norton

#14. When I think of the wisest people I know, they share one defining trait: curiosity. They turn away from the minutiae of their lives-and focus on the world around them. They are motivated by the desire to explore the unfamiliar. They are drawn toward what they don't understand.

Dani Shapiro

#15. Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.

Annie Besant

#16. Fashioning the body, defining the self.

Unknown

#17. As a director, you should choose a project that will educate you and enrich your life, because you're going to be doing it for two years.

Rob Marshall

#18. What if experience is disappointment, and a human's old age has no sense, and all what we acquire in our lifetime is a habit for disappointment?

Lara Biyuts

#19. 'Santa Monica' was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But it's not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.

Art Alexakis

#20. If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know," he went on [ ... ]; "I seem to see some meaning in them, after all.

Lewis Carroll

#21. A boy once told me that love without heartbreak is just a pretty myth.

Leila Sales

#22. If you dare to create something and put it out there, after all, then it may accidentally stir up a response. That's the natural order of life: the eternal inhale and exhale of action and reaction. But you are definitely not in charge of the reaction - even when that reaction is flat-out bizarre.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#23. The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

Denis Donoghue

#24. They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.

Jennifer Saunders

#25. It was to apologize, and apologizing means he remembers what happened, and that means being trapped in a nightmare that's already come true.

Beth Revis