arts

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

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."

"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame."

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

"Great artists suffer for the people."

"Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century."

"You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest."

"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible."

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

"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity."

"I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called 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?"

"Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love."

"I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking."

"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."

"This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love."

"We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity."

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

"Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them."

"Through art, you create your own world."