arts

"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."

"Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force."

"For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat."

"Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern."

"I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization."

"The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists."

"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."

"You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel."

"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."

"A picture is worth a thousand words."

"Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort."

"Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate."

"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability."

"Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."

"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."

"Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare."

"I don't need the money, dear. I work for art."

"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."

"An empty canvas is full."

"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."