arts

"To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy."

"Art is for everybody."

"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity."

"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."

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

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

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

"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."

"Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together."

"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."

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

"Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind."

"I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both."

"My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books."

"If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life."

"I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain."

"Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart."

"My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see."

"I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen."

"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."