The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
— Sydney J. Harris
My art side is free and there are no strings attached.
— Swizz Beatz
I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing.
— Svetlana Alexievich
Minimalism? It is something I appreciate as an art form but leave to others - unless you count a collection of warhorse-workwear Yves Saint Laurent trouser suits. Maybe my penchant for hippie-deluxe eccentricity came from an escapist dream of a different world. It was tough being a working mom in the 1970s.
— Suzy Menkes
Of course, in the art class, I was the model.
— Suzanne Farrell
There is an art to eavesdropping, but I think to some extent we are all guilty of picking up those little odds and ends that can be quite intriguing if you analyse them.
— Susie Dent
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
— Susanne Langer
The value of writing about art is its effect on the imagination. Paintings allow us to inhabit another culture, place, and time period, and address the issues of those time periods that resonate with our own time.
— Susan Vreeland
Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.
I pored over art books and absorbed the placidness of Monet's garden, the sparkling color of the Impressionists, the strength and solidity of Michelangelo's figures showing the titanic power of humans at one with God, Jan Vermeer's serene Dutch women bathed in gorgeous honey-colored light... My conviction grew that art was stronger than death.
Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. I've always been interested in it, although I never pursued it as a career or even as an avocation.
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
— Susan Sontag
The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about making the city more interesting and more visually significant.
— Susan Davis
I was born in Seoul, South Korea; then I moved to New York City at the age of seventeen. In New York, I studied art and photography. I thought I would be a painter; then I saw Walker Evans when I was in college, and that had a great impact on me. Being in the darkroom making B&W prints was such a magical experience.
— Sung Jin Park
The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
— Sun Tzu
My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.
— Sufjan Stevens
My ad-hoc empirical formula is that wherever you grow a lot of rice, there is a lot of art developing as well. My theory goes on to say that after having a nice meal of rice, one feels lethargic and don't think of work. When you don't think of work, you think of art.
— Sudha Murty
The art of doing science is doing the important things first.
— Sydney Brenner
There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.
Art is always kind of snooping and listening in.
I would like to live forever in people's hearts and minds; that would be fun. I'll leave the world my art.
— Suzi Quatro
Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.
— Sutton Foster
I think people generally are lost, as they keep thinking about what is going to happen and what they have done. They are not alive anymore. The art of listening is missing. In their head, they are doing something else.
— Sushant Singh Rajput
It was at Juilliard that I realized that being a singer encompasses so many things that I am interested in. Literature, languages, physics, history, art. You really get to explore so many things.
— Susanna Phillips
Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and made a pledge to myself that the art of this newly discovered world in the Old World would be my life companion.
Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.
The gift art gives us is that instead of seeing only our own world, we see into other times, which offers a window into other cultures and sensibilities.
I could say diamonds are a girl's best friend, and that never changes. But the taste for art did change.
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
My father came to Chennai at the age of 16 from a village in Coimbatore. He was an artist and was clear he wanted to do something, so he came to Chennai and joined an art course for eight years before he came into films.
— Suriya
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I don't think it's art. I just think it's music. It is what it is.
Writing is an art, just like any other creative exercise - painting a picture, singing a song or dancing. It is an expression of your feelings.
Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.
From the point of view of art, the butcher and the victim are equal as people. You need to see the people.
The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.
I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a dress from microbes. It was the craziest thing I had ever heard, but I'm a bit of a science fiction fan and I thought it sounded like an interesting challenge.
— Suzanne Lee
Just as sport can, art has the capacity to cross so many boundaries like education, race and religion.
— Susie Wolff
I'm a trained engineer, so I'm conditioned to come up with a right answer to a difficult question, but when it comes to art, there is no definite answer because it's so subjective.
The older I got, the less pretentious I got in my art tastes and work.
— Susanna Fogel
To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.
I write about art out of gratitude to painters for the joy and spiritual uplift they have given me. Painters interpret for us the visual glories of God and, in this way, bring us closer to Him.
When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have to stand up and say that even when there was dire poverty ten blocks away from Tiffany Studios in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was art and creativity within.
In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Art can influence people, and indeed it should do that as well.
— Suresh Gopi
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.
I've always been a creative person since I was young. I enjoyed art, museums, plays, but it wasn't until I was about 10 that my mother encouraged me to choose a career, and it was acting.
— Sufe Bradshaw