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the art of being naïve is being questioned by the art of being "right" all the time.	If we behave with naiveness, we are seen as idiots.	Rate it: (5.00 / 2 votes)
anyone can make art, but not all art makes a person an artist.	Artist	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
down to a fine art	Having or showing exceptional proficiency.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
the three components of art are : 1. mere catharsis and cathexis, 2. (etc. )	Cathexis : 2 major definitions, one being psychoanalytic in nature. Very rarely used in speech or in it's written form. Cathexis : what a fascinating word. Even the sound of it is unusual.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
"art for me is to find something inside yourself that the other has difficulty doing."	Art	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
art class	A lesson in art	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
art college	A place where you learn art	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
art imitates life	The observation that a creative work was inspired by true events; based on a true story.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
art school	Place where you learn art	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
huitième art	Television	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
il sait le fort et le fin de son art	He knows every trick of his trade.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
la critique est aisée mais l'art est difficile	Il est facile de trouver des défauts à quelque chose, alors qu’on ne ferait pas mieux soi-même.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
life imitates art	The notion that an event in the real world was inspired by a creative work.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
neuvième art	comics, graphic novels, comic art	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
septième art	cinema	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hang your hat on that	Assume or take credit for an idea, suggestion, phrase, development, creation, invention, proclamation, prediction, accomplishment, result, acceptance at large for your creation, art.performance et al:	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
avoir le cafard	^ Charles Baudelaire , “La Volupté”, in Les Fleurs du mal: “Parfois il prend, sachant mon grand amour de l’Art, / La forme de la plus séduisante des femmes, / Et, sous de spécieux prétextes de cafard, / Accoutume ma lèvre à des philtres infâmes.”	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
ars dicendi	the art of speaking; oratory.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
ars fingendi	the art of sculpture.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
ars ludicra (De Or. 2. 20. 84)	the dramatic art.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
ars pingendi, pictura (De Or. 2. 16. 69)	the art of painting.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
artem exercere	to follow an artistic profession, practise an art.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
artem profiteri	to profess an art.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
artem tradere, docere	to teach an art.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
artis opus; opus arte factum or perfectum	a work of art.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
artis praecepta, or also simply ars	the rules of art; aesthetics.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bim, BEM, Bum	Retro art composition; composition stereotypical for the cover art of mid-20th-century science fiction pulp magazines.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
black-and-white	Of art, a photograph or photography, using shades of grey/gray rather than colour/color.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
faire école	To found (or, to be a leader of) a school of art, literature, music, &c.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
nec plus ultra	state-of-the-art	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
oil painting	works of art	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
one-upmanship	The art or practice of successively outdoing a competitor.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny	(biology, social sciences, art, philosophy) The physical, cultural, moral, or intellectual development of each individual passes through stages similar to the developmental stages of that individual's species, society, or civilization.1905, J. A. Harris, "The Importance of Investigations of Seedling Stages," Science, New Series, vol. 22, no. 554, p. 186:With reference to seedling stages the statement that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny must be made with great reserve.1961, M. E. Wolfgang, "Pioneers in Criminology: Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909)," The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science, vol. 52, no. 4, p. 367:Haeckel maintained that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, and this idea was incorporated by Lombroso into his parallelism between the criminal and the child.2002, B. S. Jackson, "Models in Legal History: The Case of Biblical Law," Journal of Law and Religion, vol. 18, no. 1, p. 11:For even if we accept that "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny," those responsible for the drafting of ancient legal documents were not children, and are hardly to be endowed with some form of infantile mentality.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
piece of work	A product or manufactured article, especially an item of art or craft.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
qui est bien qu'il s'y tienne	Rest content where thou art; Better dry bread at home than roast meat abroad.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
spoken word	An oral art form, usually consisting of performance poetry, although sometimes overlapping with storytelling or rap.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
suspend one's disbelief	To willingly accept the premise of a story or work of art for the sake of enjoying it.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tant vaut l'homme, tant vaut la terre	Les terres, les fonds de commerce, etc., rapportent en proportion de la capacité de ceux qui les exploitent, de l’art de les faire valoir.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tant vaut l'homme, tant vaut sa terre	Les terres, les fonds de commerce, etc., rapportent en proportion de la capacité de ceux qui les exploitent, de l’art de les faire valoir.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
veritatem imitari (Div. 1. 13. 23)	(1) to make a lifelike natural representation of a thing (used of the artist); (2) to be lifelike (of a work of art).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
vitrine	A glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, or fine merchandise.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)