arts

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years."

"We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still."

"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."

"Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science."

"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."

"Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings."

"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist."

"The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress."

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

"You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not."

"Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative."

"The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract."

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

"I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills."

"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."

"Every good painter paints what he is."

"Art is the objectification of feeling."

"It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer."

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."