arts

"If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary."

"Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn."

"Patience is the art of concealing your impatience."

"If a building becomes architecture, then it is art."

"No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger."

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."

"What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life."

"Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate."

"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."

"The art of love is largely the art of persistence."

"The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation."

"Life is short, the art long."

"Art depends on luck and talent."

"Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference."

"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."

"I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever."

"When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art."

"I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be... it's not art, it's expression."

"Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world."

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