arts

"I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art."

"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!"

"I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside."

"Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down."

"Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away."

"Art is a harmony parallel with nature."

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

"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."

"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."

"I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them."

"Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?"

"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."

"Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them."

"What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life."

"A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world."

"It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems."

"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."

"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."

"Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis."

"Art lies by its own artifice."