arts

"I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?"

"Painting is by nature a luminous language."

"Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there."

"When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another."

"You wouldn't have the same art on the walls at every restaurant or the same waiter uniforms. Neither should you have the same service style at every restaurant."

"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs."

"Pictures must not be too picturesque."

"I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot."

"At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking. I am a professional spoken word poet who tours the world performing and teaching. I run an organization called Project VOICE dedicated to using this art form as an education and empowerment tool in schools and communities of all kinds."

"No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it."

"It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl."

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

"Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it."

"If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer."

"The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol."

"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece."

"O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."

"Life is short, the art long."

"I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain."

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."