Quotes About Definition

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

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.

art, n. This word has no definition.

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.

Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.

If you call that music real noise

Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.

Amira In training and coaching thousands of professionals, I have found that lack of time is not the major issue for them (though they themselves may think it is); the real problem is a lack of clarity and definition about what a project really is, and what the associated next-action steps required are. Clarifying things on the front end, when they first appear on the radar, rather than on the back end, after trouble has developed, allows people to reap the benefits of managing action.

I have found that lack of time is not the major issue for them (though they may think it is); the real problem is a lack of clarity and definition about what a project really is, and what associated next-action steps are required.