"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."
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"Life is not an exact science, it is an art."
"To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute."
"Art is the triumph over chaos."
"One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement."
"I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like."
"I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing."
"I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form."
"The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art."
"Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness."
"My painting does not come from the easel."
"Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?"
"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."
"I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use."
"It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl."
"Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed."
"Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'"
"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own."
"Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art."
"They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."