arts

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."

"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family."

"Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn."

"Art will never be able to exist without nature."

"When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring."

"A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art."

"I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me."

"Pitching is the art of instilling fear."

"The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality."

"One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes."

"Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'"

"The perfection of art is to conceal art."

"For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself."

"The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy."

"Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate."

"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."

"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

"I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!"

"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."

"A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art."