arts

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."

"Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time."

"Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it."

"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."

"When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art."

"All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture."

"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art."

"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity."

"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."

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

"I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be... it's not art, it's expression."

"I want to continue to do some great work. I'm nowhere close to where I want to be. I'm a diverse person who's trying to use his art to make the world better."

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."

"Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence."

"As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster."

"Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization."

"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."

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."

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