arts

"I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing."

"Art is science made clear."

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

"In reality art is always for everyone and for no one."

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."

"I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly."

"Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing."

"Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn."

"Pitching is the art of instilling fear."

"The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said."

"It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned."

"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity."

"You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating."

"Through art, you create your own world."

"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."

"I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that."

"The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well."

"Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is."

"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."

"Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'"