arts

"Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day."

"I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

"Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm."

"To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."

"If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?"

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

"I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times."

"Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him."

"Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'"

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."

"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"

"Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational."

"I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing."

"You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot."

"Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business."

"Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums."

"Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that."

"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."

"It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception."