arts

"Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist."

"Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see."

"Art must take reality by surprise."

"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."

"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods."

"These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triump die, like fire and powderWhich, as they kiss, consume"

"We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations."

"There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music."

"You don't take a photograph, you make it."

"The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal."

"Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that."

"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created."

"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death."

"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."

"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world."

"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."

"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."

"I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them."

"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."

"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life."