arts

"I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win."

"Art is never finished, only abandoned."

"Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it."

"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."

"One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement."

"It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way."

"My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made."

"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."

"One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil."

"Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time."

"Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies."

"The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol."

"Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible."

"A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things."

"Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well."

"To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."

"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves."

"And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter."

"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity."

"Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life."