arts

"Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums."

"Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate."

"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."

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

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."

"A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world."

"People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role."

"It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art."

"'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble."

"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message."

"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."

"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle."

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

"I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology."

"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art."

"That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind."

"That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for."

"You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel."

"Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart."

"To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute."