arts

"In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives."

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

"Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force."

"I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog."

"Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn."

"My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in."

"I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions."

"There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature."

"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love."

"I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work."

"To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts."

"Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'."

"There is nothing new in art except talent."

"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."

"A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before."

"I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly."

"An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it."

"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."

"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."

"No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger."