arts

"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."

"The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination."

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."

"The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal."

"The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal."

"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."

"I paint with shapes."

"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough."

"I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass."

"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen."

"I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting."

"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature."

"Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."

"In art as in love, instinct is enough."

"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."

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."

"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."