arts

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

"When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God."

"Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people."

"Cleanliness is the scourge of art."

"Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is."

"The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself."

"What are men to rocks and mountains?"

"Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'"

"Painting is by nature a luminous language."

"Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art."

"The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself."

"Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?"

"A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art."

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

"Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty."

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

"When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art."

"With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.'"

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

"Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else."