arts

"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'"

"Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science."

"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."

"When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun."

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."

"Space is the breath of art."

"Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me."

"No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy."

"Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art."

"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."

"Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?"

"Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room."

"I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different."

"What are men to rocks and mountains?"

"The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation."

"Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it."

"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."

"Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day."

"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."