Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. Jul 07, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. Jul 07, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. Jul 07, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. Jul 07, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. Jul 07, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. Jul 07, 2024 - Fabian Biese>