arts

"When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam... It's like it's all being handled by professionals."

"I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms."

"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."

"Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them."

"The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art."

"I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth."

"It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw."

"Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation."

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

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

"Art is for everybody."

"Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine."

"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."

"What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart."

"Art is eternal, but life is short."

"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."

"I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside."

"When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process."

"Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it."