arts

"A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas."

"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day."

"The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor."

"Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate."

"If a building becomes architecture, then it is art."

"Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it."

"When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art."

"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."

"It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time."

"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."

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

"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding."

"The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress."

"Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day."

"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."

"I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become."

"I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity."

"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."

"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."

"O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."