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A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.
— D.H. Lawrence
Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.
— Georges St-Pierre
Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself.
— Stephanie Vaughn
In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.
— Damien Hirst
Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.
— Mona Simpson
The first thousand are the hardest.
— Herbert Gute
The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Creativity can impact some sort of "CHANGE" in the WORLD. But we must first embrace pure "DIFFERENCES" and work together for a common cause.
— Henry Johnson Jr
The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.
— Robert Breault
The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok's wonder The Puppet Show.
— Vsevolod Meyerhold
The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.
— Laurence Olivier
Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.
— Clement Greenberg
The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.
— John Philpot Curran
In art, don't you see, there is no first person.
— Oscar Wilde
What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Art is first a seeing and then a revealing
— Sheldon Vanauken
Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.
— Marcel Duchamp
Music was the first art form I ever had.
— Robert David Hall
First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.
— Francisco Goya
Empathy is, first of all, an act of imagination, a storyteller's art
— Solnit, Rebecca
I am now of the opinion that children should first be taught the art of drawing before learning how to write.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.
— Jacques Barzun
In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance
— Thomas Jefferson
The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.
— Arthur Symons
The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.
— Kiki Smith
But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.
— Stanley Elkin
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.
— Camille Paglia
Peace is first of all the art of being.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
— Philip James Bailey
At first my father didn't like Art, but after he got to know him better he really hated him.
— Joe Hill
The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.
— Joseph Addison
Masters in all branches of art must first be masters in living, for the soul creates everything.
— Bruce Lee
The subject comes first, the medium second.
— Richard Prince
I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.
— Kristine Kathryn Rusch
In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul
— Albert Camus
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth ... Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
— Andre Malraux
My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.
— Ty Pennington
To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).
— Albert Camus
The first function of an art student is to observe, to study nature.
— Kimon Nicolaides
I honor health as the first Muse.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri ... My life began at this point.
— George Bellows
It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science.
— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally.
— Frederick Lenz
Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving ... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.
— Nicholas Serota
My first memory is of light
the brightness of light
light all around. — Georgia O'Keeffe
the brightness of light
light all around. — Georgia O'Keeffe
As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.
— Thomas De Quincey
I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.
— Ryan McGinley
First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
— Marina Abramovic
The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.
— Walter Benjamin
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
— Jean Racine
An artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.
— Chaim Potok
The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.
— Tania Bruguera
Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.
— Eric Johnston
A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.
— John Ruskin
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.
— Terry Teachout
I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.
— Marcel Proust
First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.
— William Blake
The Word that will change a man must first show the man who he really is.
— Christian Michael
Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.
— Andrew Brown
Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
— Patrick Marber
There are portraits and still-lifes
And the first, because 'human'
Does not excel the second — Charles Tomlinson
And the first, because 'human'
Does not excel the second — Charles Tomlinson
Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.
— Jerry Saltz