arts

"Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain."

"Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for."

"Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves."

"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."

"Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life."

"Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures."

"I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room."

"There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it."

"In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects."

"It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created."

"Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing."

"And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter."

"I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They're very efficient. They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers."

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

"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."

"The temple of art is built in words."

"Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind."

"Great artists suffer for the people."

"Painting is by nature a luminous language."

"Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods."