arts

"I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear."

"The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art."

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

"I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form."

"Great art is an instant arrested in eternity."

"Even a true artist does not always produce art."

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."

"In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration."

"Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy."

"Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love."

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."

"No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters."

"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence."

"Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!"

"Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain."

"Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them."

"The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake."

"Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands."

"Let each man exercise the art he knows."