arts

"Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent."

"The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill."

"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."

"The perfection of art is to conceal art."

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

"I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money."

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."

"The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes."

"Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often very rude and troublesome, just as nature or art can be."

"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."

"A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not."

"Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions."

"Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live."

"Painting is by nature a luminous language."

"Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world."

"No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone."

"Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist."

"I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form."

"Wherever art appears, life disappears."

"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life."