arts

"The best artists know what to leave out."

"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"

"Some people care too much. I think it's called love."

"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."

"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."

"One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on."

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

"That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste."

"The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge."

"Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?"

"If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary."

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."

"I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself."

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

"I want to continue to do some great work. I'm nowhere close to where I want to be. I'm a diverse person who's trying to use his art to make the world better."

"That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings."

"Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral."

"It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way."

"American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism."