The "whole point" of art is to lead us beyond what can be apprehended at the merely material level, to awaken new senses in us, and to teach us a new kind of hearing, which perceives the Inaudible in the audible. The sacredness of the [art] consists precisely in the fact that it comes from an
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
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The Fine Art of Doing Nothing
The sign on the stage proclaimed: "The Motionless Man: Make Him Laugh. Win $100." The temptation was irresistible. For three hours boys and girls, men and women, performed every antic and told every joke they knew. But Bill Fuqua, the Motionless Man, stood perfectly
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In the German art galleries there hangs a painting called "Cloud Lane." It hangs at the end of a long dark hall. On first glance it appears to be nothing more than a huge, ugly mass of confused color that is foreboding. However, the closer that one gets to the painting, there is portrayed on the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
Eloquence is the art of saying things in such a way that those to whom we speak may
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what
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