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Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?

Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.

Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.

Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.

Doth sickness fill my heart with fear, 'Tis sweet to know that Thou art near; Am I with dread of justice tried, 'Tis sweet to know that Christ hath died.

Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

Do you ever wonder if what you look at is the same thing everyone else is seeing?' He went even stiller at her side. 'Sometimes I'm sure it isn't the same...but that's not so bad is it? Seeing the world in a different way?' Creative vision creates art' he motioned around the gallery 'that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's a beautiful thing.

Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.

Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

Do you think you can love too much? Or experience too much beauty, at the cost of too much pain? Do you think when art is defined by expressing so much beauty and so much pain, just to be able to cope with both - and bring other people something creatively beautiful at the cost of that pain - that we can draw a line of 'normalcy'? It's important to think about.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

Drama is the most difficult of all arts. In it two things are to be satisfied - first, the ears, and second, the eyes. To paint a scene, if one thing be painted, it is easy enough; but to paint different things and yet to keep up the central interest is very difficult. Another difficult thing is stage - management, that is, combining different things in such a manner as to keep the central interest intact.

Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

Drawing is the honesty of the art.

Drawing the kind of comics that I do takes so long that to specifically address something as transitory as a political matter in it would be about as effective as composing a symphony with hopes that it would depose a despot. On top of that, I personally don't think that my version of art is the best way to deal with political issues at all, or, more specifically, the place to make a point. Not that art can't, but it's the rare art that still creates something lasting if its main aim was purely to change a particular unfair social structure.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

Drawing from art history and mythology allows me to connect with viewers in a familiar, yet loose visual framework. Blending disparate histories and themes can give the overall presentation a recognizable, yet unique flavor.

Drawing is the honesty of art.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line: drawing is also expression, the inner form, the plane, the modeling. See what remains after that.

Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

Drawing creates its own kind of private space. Coupled with certain interests that I want to speak to in my art, it's really kind of a safe haven for me. Creating art is not only a comfort zone, but also a way of speaking to my passions.

Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue

Drawing is the true test of art.

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

Drue [Langlois] and I started making music together before we started the Art Lodge, so I guess musical collaboration came first. The music we made, and our performances, always had a visual component. I could never play an instrument, so these other elements compensated for that a little.

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and many other great jazz musicians objected to their music being called jazz. While the outside world may want to put a label on it, those who create it think of it just as music, and tend not to classify it.

Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.

Duchamp's urinal was art once he put it in a gallery. In fact, one working definition of art is anything that is in a gallery.

Drummond is many things, and one of those things is a magician. (...) Art is magic, and so is pop. Bill Drummond is a cultural magician, and 45 is his logbook. Shelve alongside Brian Eno's A Year With Swollen Appendices. Hail Discordia !

Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.

During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.

During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health.

During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.