arts

"All art is but imitation of nature."

"Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them."

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

"That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind."

"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'"

"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."

"No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger."

"I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium."

"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity."

"We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations."

"Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art."

"Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion."

"I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen."

"Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art."

"When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun."

"A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author."

"I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old."

"I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them."

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

"If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens."