arts

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

"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."

"Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart."

"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."

"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."

"Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly."

"Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is."

"To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace."

"A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding."

"Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette."

"When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life."

"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."

"History develops, art stands still."

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."

"With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound."

"Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas."

"I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art."

"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?"

"Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training."

"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate."