arts

"Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't."

"Minimal art went nowhere."

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."

"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."

"Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away."

"I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that."

"What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form."

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

"Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits."

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

"The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art."

"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."

"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."

"I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core."

"As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with."

"The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success."

"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."

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