arts

"Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s."

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

"O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."

"It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray."

"Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art."

"My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in."

"Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go."

"Stupid people are dangerous."

"Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it."

"I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously."

"Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent."

"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."

"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."

"The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization."

"To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect."

"There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing."

"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist."

"Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation."

"Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn."

"Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible."