Sentence examples for art as a vocation from inspiring English sources

He regarded art as a vocation, a calling.

He was captured in Crete in 1941 and became a prisoner in Stalag 383, Bavaria, where he met the painter Adrian Heath, who saw the portraits he was doing of fellow prisoners and encouraged him to think of art as a vocation.

Perhaps I did not exactly say but certainly implied that the writer serves a higher calling, what one refers to only in art and religion as a vocation, and cannot worry too much about the feelings of those whose lives she borrows from.

That moment compensates for Logan's occasional overemphasis on Rothko's vision of art as a suffering-laden vocation, and for the hero's apparent indifference to the world beyond the studio: he shows no interest in Ken as a person, and even regards the revelation that his parents were murdered as a creative stimulus.

For many the social care profession is as much a vocation as a job.

With a prosthesis made for his left arm — he declined one for the other — art became a vocation.

It's possible to encounter O'Connnor's stories (you never really just read them) without explicitly discerning her deep, abiding belief in literary art as Christian vocation or her mission to show, as she said, "the action of grace in territory held largely by the devil".

In this context, being a physician is still presented as a vocation to do good, as an art of caring for the individual patient's needs.

She displayed artistic promise and pursued music as a vocation.

He had never seen the law as a vocation.

The lectures, "Politics as a Vocation" and "Science as a Vocation," address the nature of learning, scholarship and political action.