arts

"Though she be but little, she is fierce!"

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

"Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions."

"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."

"Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is."

"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."

"When we hear some beautiful piece of Mozart or admire a wonderful building, we suddenly become present in ourselves. That's unusual nowadays because dishevelment and distraction have become an art form."

"To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."

"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."

"For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat."

"Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational."

"The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art."

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

"The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind."

"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."

"Minimal art went nowhere."

"Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible."

"Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting."

"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."

"What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought."