arts

"Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is."

"An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture."

"The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart."

"Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea."

"Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral."

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."

"The perfection of art is to conceal art."

"I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist."

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

"I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it."

"Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."

"As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster."

"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."

"Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously."

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

"It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result."

"Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art."

"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one."

"Art is science made clear."

"The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind."