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It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing. -- Deanna Petherbridge
It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different realms of art practice or not. -- Jonathon Keats
My art practice eventually arrived at a point where I had freedom from various limiting conditions; the institutional mindset is not airtight and isn't altogether ideologically programmed. There are ways of escaping. -- Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that's a way of slowing myself down so that I can hear myself think. That quieter voice has sometimes the more interesting idea, if I can get to it. -- Mark Bradford
The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art. -- Frederick Pollock
For me, spiritual practice is a lot closer to art than science. -- Liz Williams
The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's. -- Martin H. Fischer
Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone. -- Maria Semple
Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice. -- James Cash Penney
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice. -- David Seabury
Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times. -- David Ben-Gurion
It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art. -- Rosanna Arquette
The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise. -- Thomas Sydenham
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. -- Hillary Clinton
No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know. -- Emma Anderson
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift. -- Anton Seidl
That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings. -- Damien Hirst
I actually no longer use 'art' as the framing device. I think I'm just kind of practicing things, practicing life, practicing creation. -- Theaster Gates
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. -- Harvey Mackay
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. -- W. H. Auden
I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles of populism and social consciousness I aspire to in my own practice. -- Shepard Fairey
In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be taught in art schools like a branch of public relations or political science. -- Michael Leunig
We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it. -- Art Garfunkel
Practice transforms a skill into an art -- Siddharth Joshi
In art, practice always comes before theory. -- Pablo Picasso
The art of dressing is the art we all practice -- Anne Hollander
Let every man practice the art that he knows best. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice. -- Aristotle
Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste. -- Og Mandino
ALWAYS PRACTICE the Art of Peace in a vibrant and joyful manner. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. -- Peter Drucker
You haven't prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art -- LaMar Boschman
Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet -- Henry Mintzberg
Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice. -- Witold Rybczynski
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. -- Mary Caroline Richards
Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial. -- Henry Fuseli
PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. -- Ambrose Bierce
There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly. -- Julia Cameron
Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated... -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice. -- Erich Fromm
First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science. -- Leonardo da Vinci
However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant -- Saadi
In living, as in art, rules are drawn from practice; not the other way around. -- William Henry Jackson
The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism. -- Henry James
Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on. -- James Connolly
The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth. -- Mark Nepo
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost. -- William Blake
Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing. -- Pietro Aretino
Since karate is a martial art, you must practice with the utmost seriousness from the very beginning. -- Gichin Funakoshi
It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man. -- Izaak Walton
Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it -- Seth Godin
PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood. -- Ambrose Bierce
Article Five: If you have no reason or ability to accomplish anything, then just practice the art of becoming. -- Elif Safak
In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy. -- W. Somerset Maugham
We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Learning to trust our intuition is an art form, and like all other art forms, it takes practice to perfect. -- Shakti Gawain
Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art. -- Eudora Welty
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. -- Kurt Vonnegut
What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes. -- Robert Browning
Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an art, which can be learnt and practised. -- Anupam Kher
Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make. -- Chase Jarvis
In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure; it is the personal practice of the presence of God. -- Wilferd Peterson
Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice. -- Edgar Alwin Payne
As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature. -- Ai Weiwei
Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice. -- George Polya
In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido. -- Joseph Jarman
Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write. -- Kurt Vonnegut
PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that. -- Morihei Ueshiba
No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host. -- Tiffany Madison
One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living. -- Elizabeth Lesser
Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments. -- Lewis Mumford
Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing. -- Samuel Hahnemann
Righteousness alone can exalt America as a nation. Whoever thou art, remember this; and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, and encourage it in others. -- Patrick Henry
One of the most important things I've learned about acting is that you can't separate how you live your life and how you practice your art. -- Larry Moss
There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
INSTRUCTORS CAN impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life. -- Morihei Ueshiba
There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to practice the art of communication. -- Max de Pree
In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means. -- Phyllis Bentley
Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon. -- Ken Baumann
my child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life... 2 things you need... learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one. -- Carlos Barrios
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. -- William Osler
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private. -- Adam Gopnik
So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools. -- Alexander Pope
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. -- Morihei Ueshiba
All of us can improve the quality of our lives if we practice the art of self-care and train our minds to think thoughts that make us feel good. -- Louise Hay
As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be? -- Stephen King
Mel [Bochner] sets a very high standard. He expects only the best and most thoughtful and rigorous examinations, not only of the history of art but your own practice. -- Kehinde Wiley
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. -- Lewis Mumford

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