arts

"I want to continue to do some great work. I'm nowhere close to where I want to be. I'm a diverse person who's trying to use his art to make the world better."

"أحسد الأطفال الرضّع، لأنهم يملكون وحدهم حق الصراخ والقدرة عليه، قبل أن تروض الحياة حبالهم الصوتية، وتعلِّمهم الصمت"

"In the world I amAlways a strangerI do not understand its languageIt does not understand my silence"

"The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes."

"It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers."

"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art."

"We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still."

"You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself."

"Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization."

"Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis."

"My painting does not come from the easel."

"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."

"The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart."

"Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it."

"Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask."

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

"It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems."

"I paint with shapes."

"Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize."

"Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there."