arts

"And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on."

"In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration."

"There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it."

"I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization."

"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."

"I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside."

"Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there."

"Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work."

"Part of what I do and what I want to do is I want to bring art into the everyday life. If you can take ordinary just walking in the street and you're confronted by something, that might change your day - it might inspire you."

"Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'"

"Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."

"To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul."

"I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit."

"There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within."

"Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart."

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

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."

"Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational."

"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years."

"Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint."