arts

"Where thou art, that is home."

"In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good."

"I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters."

"Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well."

"I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art."

"I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become."

"When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art."

"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."

"I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring."

"Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art."

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

"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it."

"Every artist writes his own autobiography."

"Art lies by its own artifice."

"I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking."

"Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly."

"In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised."

"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good."

"I don't believe in art. I believe in artists."

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."