Sentence examples for a devotion to art from inspiring English sources

Though he earns high fees whenever he does work, a devotion to art rather than a devotion to popular success places him from time to time in tenuous circumstances.

In the words of Dave Eggers, "the architecture of residential San Francisco is about detail, wilful eccentricity, an almost rococo approach to line, and a steadfast devotion to art for its own sake, beauty as its own reward.

The choice elated me, because a "Flowers" show in Paris, in 1965, was one of two experiences I had that year that inspired a vocational devotion to art.

In his life as much as his work, he embodied not merely an "aesthetic" devotion to art and beauty but also many of the fin de siècle's finest creative energies.

Art is the closest thing that atheists have to religion, and it's the devotion to art that ought to help an atheist temper his disbelief with fascination.

Pater gave Wilde his sense of almost flippant devotion to art, though it was John Ruskin who gave him a purpose for it.

From her early and unwavering devotion to art house films to her advocacy of body acceptance, in a strictly size zero business she's something of an anomaly.

Founder of New York's Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Flory's devotion to art and beauty never waned.

Many of Kovarsky's wordless wonders had to do with art: Eventually, Kovarsky's devotion to art itself became greater than his interest in cartooning, and he became a full-time painter.

Iskusstvo kino, founded in 1931, chronicled that cinematic legacy with its devotion to art in Russian film.

Her cause is noble, but her character is static; her nunlike devotion to art makes his fixation frustrating.