arts

"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."

"There is nothing new in art except talent."

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

"There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all."

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."

"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

"If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it."

"I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts."

"I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists."

"As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately."

"Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day."

"Though she be but little, she is fierce!"

"There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature."

"Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them."

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods."

"I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words."

"The principle of art is to pause, not bypass."

"One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on."