#art

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#does #excellence #goes #lie #produces

Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor. ↗

— Avi Arad

#angst #characters #could #deeper #delve

When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly. ↗

— Michael Arad

#accept #any #apprehensive #architect #changes

Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#arab #arab world #blows #cement #explosive

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. ↗

— John Arbuthnot

#last #lies #own #parties #political

Let each man exercise the art he knows. ↗

— Aristophanes

#art #each #exercise #knows #man

I've loved art for more than 30 years. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#i #loved #more #than #years

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another. ↗

— Dario Argento

#by the time #changes #each #film #finish

Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will. ↗

— Dario Argento

#adored #always #apart #audiences #did

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ↗

— Aristotle

#acted #art #because #excellence #habit