arts

"I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms."

"The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep."

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

"A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art."

"An art book is a museum without walls."

"Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting."

"Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."

"It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray."

"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 distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"Great artists suffer for the people."

"There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form."

"Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected."

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."

"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."

"Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it."

"Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted."

"An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose."