The subject is to the painter what the rails are to the locomotive. He cannot do without it.Quote by Diego Rivera about art
I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about events, authority, need
The worn-out saucepans and tinware of our kitchens, when beyond the reach of the tinker's art, are not utterly worthless.Quote by Charles Babbage about art, magic
I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.Quote by Hank Aaron about magic, home
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!Quote by Edward Abbey about flowers, magic
During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.Quote by Lynn Abbey about magic
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.Quote by Irving Babbitt about society, man
I have a problematic relationship with magic: when push comes to shove, I don't believe in it.Quote by Lynn Abbey about magic
To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.Quote by Irving Babbitt about nation, failure
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.Quote by Lester Bangs about eternity, future, art, magic, work, time
In the process of defending the integrity of my story, I would clean up the structural problems without focusing on them. I've used it myself with the writers I've mentored.Quote by Lynn Abbey about integrity, writers, problems
Magic works differently for every author who's written for the series.Quote by Lynn Abbey about magic
Magical realism is based on magical magic, that is, the happening of things that cannot be explained by the characters and are not explained by the author.Quote by Lynn Abbey about magic, things
Talking Heads, were a sorta collegian kinda art school, I'm trying not to make them sound so bad cause I really love em.Quote by Lester Bangs about heads, talking, school, bad luck, art, magic, bad, love
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.Quote by Lester Bangs about mistake, art, magic
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.Quote by Harold Bloom about criticism
As a young kid growing up, black kids identified with me. We all danced together, and we shared that love for art.Quote by Paula Abdul about magic, art, love