Sentences with phrase «better than no art»

I am better than thou art now; I am a Fool, thou art nothing.»

If art inspired by uncertainty is better than art inspired by certainty, let us dismiss Dante and the cathedrals.

It's also better than post systems, better than art, better than musical instruments, where we've also got a series that begins in 1900.

And remember, even a mediocre art style is better than no art style.

The stuff Blake surrounds himself with is better than his art.

The White Review No. 14 features interviews with the art critic, historian and October journal editor Hal Foster; British artist Mark Leckey, whose hugely influential film «Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore» was memorably described by Ed Atkins as «better than art»; and the novelist Rachel Cusk, who talks about her commitment to «writing sentences that aren't the product of sentences written by other people.»

Curtis Talwst Santiago mentioned in The New Yorker's «A Secret Exhibit That's Better Than an Art Fair»

Not exact matches

«There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall,» English literary critic Cyril Connolly declared seventy something years ago.

If admiring world - class art and indulging in gourmet food are your ideal travel activities, there's arguably no better place in Europe than this Tuscan capital.

Electronic Arts, one of Zynga's major competitors (and ranked in April as «The Worst Company in America»), fared better than Zynga on Glassdoor.com, generating an approval rating of 64 percent.

The art of conversation requires that we think on our feet, and conversing with someone smarter than you can be a fantastic exercise in quick thinking as well as an opportunity to learn something new.

But speculating on price fluctuations is a tricky art that can end up doing more harm than good.

«I'm a believer that good selling is more of a science than an art.

Even if attracting eyes and ears has become more of a game than an art, it's still something the best marketers worry about.

Who better to teach this mixed martial art than its masters?

Shrewder than a mere hatchet man, Wolff is perhaps best captured by the headline of Eric Alterman's Atlantic Monthly review of Autumn of the Moguls: «a portraitist who has mastered the art of the suck - up putdown.»

Those returns were incredibly volatile — a stock might be down 30 % one year and up 50 % the next — but the power of owning a well - diversified portfolio of incredible businesses that churn out real profit, firms such as Coca - Cola, Walt Disney, Procter & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson, has rewarded owners far more lucratively than bonds, real estate, cash equivalents, certificates of deposit and money markets, gold and gold coins, silver, art, or most other asset classes.

The line between art, technology and design is more blurred than ever, and no group knows this better than the AIGA, the NYC - based professional association for design.

Leveraging the science and art of sales to build an inside sales function requires more than hiring people who sell themselves well during an interview.

Bursting with valuable advice from Jack Canfield, Anthony Robbins, Keith Ferrazzi, Tom Hopkins, Al Lautenslager and more than 60 other masters of the art of selling, this exclusive compilation of the best sales strategies ever known puts you on the fast track to sales success.

«Boston University» is better than «liberal arts college.»

She authored the award - winning book slide: ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations, where more than 20 years of experience is distilled into visual - communication best practices.

«It's a good deal more volatile than almost anything else you've seen» veteran trader Art Cashin says.

With hard - hitting commentary, the latest on the cultural and social scene in Arts & Life, more than just the scores with entertaining Post Sports coverage, and the best business reporting in Canada within the pages of Financial Post, it is Canada's Business Voice.

@Ben What is your basis for concluding that people in the fields of math, medicine, and engineering are «better educated» than those who pursue liberal arts?

The business of my morals are better than yours is a tribal reaction similar to my societies art / music / food / architecture / etc.

This year's national gatherings will be bigger and better than ever, with plenty on offer for all ages, including a full programme of seminars, extended kids» work, a youth stream, sports and activities, cafés, art workshops, late - night entertainment, a marketplace packed with resources and volunteering opportunities, and a big family funfair!»

In other words, it's better for Biblical art to be «nice» than honest.

(CNN)- Its art collection is the envy of galleries the world over, but until now the Vatican has been better known for Renaissance masterpieces rather than hip modernist artworks.

Here then is a theology that either means nothing certainly identifiable (without supernatural grace or high genius in the art of reconnecting with experience concepts carefully divested of relation to it) or else means that the world might exactly as well not have existed, or as well have existed with far more evil or less good in it than it actually presents.

By and large the best art is a better guide to reality than the trendy orthodoxy purveyed as social science.

Medieval art as well dealt in symbols in an era when artists were more concerned with the world of Christian faith than with the world of scientific observation.

Sometimes these imperfect human beings find things like arts and literature that explain the truth of what is to be human better than science and history.

I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love (hesed)... therefore, now, O Yahweh, take my life from me for it is better for me to die than to live.

Fortunately the actuality is better than this; real art is being produced today; but to the extent that this concept holds, we are an age that has lost its way and, like Ecclesiastes, is merely busying itself with trivialities in order, as he said, to keep from thinking — one wonders if the real objective is to hide an inability to think.

Asserting that we do not yet have either the facts or the methods to make forecasting a precise art, Michael argues that there are three basic reasons for continuing to make or act upon them: (1) some forecasts are likely to be close to the mark, (2) poor forecasts provide a better basis for planning than no prediction at all, and (3) well - done forecasts help to illuminate the many factors that interact to produce the future.

He is well aware that secular interpretations of art history were not without basis, and he does not hesitate to admit that Poussin may have been «more an ancient Roman than a Counter-Reformation Catholic.»

The students at these levels may not master the finer points of Aristotelian philosophy, but they at least gain an introduction to the history and greatest books of western civilization --- which is to say, they're receiving a better liberal arts education than most of today's college students.

As a creator of anything one would assume that the creator would best understand it, whether it be a machine, computer program, piece of art, no one else will know that item better than the one who created it.

Do we believe, even in our art, that he is the giver of all good gifts, the provider, the El Shaddai, my God of more - than - enough?

To worship reverently and vitally in church is an art that involves a good deal more than simply going to church.

It's possible that engineers do better nowadays than architects; they try for craft instead of art and don't get trapped into artiness.

But when he asserts that one style of art, or one philosophical or experiential perspective, is aesthetically «better» or «richer» than another, it seems to me that he is on very questionable ground, particularly in view of his own aesthetically oriented and «anarchistic» approach.

His art is flawed because it aims at something other than the good of the artistic product.

Actually, I incline to think it would be a better education for this purpose than the liberal arts one.

The answer is always revelatory, which is one of the reasons Chesterton was right to say that «the simple need for some kind of ideal world in which fictitious persons play an unhampered part is infinitely deeper and older than the rules of good art, and much more important.»

For, if there is no God, then one faces the problem of goodness, beauty, truth, all that is lovely in music and art, all that is admirable in character, and that problem of good seems to me far more important and more difficult to solve than the problem of evil.

No man has insisted on this more vigorously than Baron von Hügel, who with all his deep faith in the fullness of our Lord's embodiment of God, was yet ever ready to maintain that in other religious traditions, and likewise in science, art, philosophy, ethics, as well as in the simple humdrum experiences of daily life, God in some way and to some degree has been found and known.

So Moses was a better magician than Jannes and Jambres (Moses trained in the «black arts» in Egypt at Pharaoh's court) and the ignorant, gullible, needy, fearful, superst!tious people of the day fell for it.

And if the presbyter or deacon is better than his bishop in the homiletical art, the latter must, for the glory of the church, adjust himself to the disparity of gifts.