arts

"Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art."

"A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world."

"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."

"When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art."

"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."

"There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics."

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."

"The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well."

"If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary."

"When you create art, the world has to wait."

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

"The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity."

"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."

"I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned."

"Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination."

"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven."

"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."

"It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception."

"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."

"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."