arts

"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible."

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good."

"All art is but imitation of nature."

"Art lies by its own artifice."

"Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea."

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

"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."

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

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

"The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'"

"Every artist writes his own autobiography."

"Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live."

"Art is the daughter of freedom."

"Paint the essential character of things."

"My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art."

"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."

"Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well."

"I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words."

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."