arts

"My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way."

"Originality is the art of concealing your source."

"There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!"

"Nothing is art if it does not come from nature."

"The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well."

"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."

"My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be."

"Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands."

"Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art."

"One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age."

"Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science."

"Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible."

"My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see."

"Art lies by its own artifice."

"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."

"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art."

"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."

"A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind."

"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."

"Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art."