arts

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

"During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination."

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

"Painting is by nature a luminous language."

"What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap."

"Where thou art, that is home."

"To me, art supplies are always okay to buy."

"A picture is a poem without words."

"I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism."

"Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is."

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

"Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits."

"One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil."

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

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

"Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed."

"To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small."

"When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring."

"I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art."

"It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers."