arts

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."

"Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings."

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

"When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right."

"London, thou art the flower of cities all!"

"I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse."

"Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me. For example, if my kid said to me, 'I want to give it all up,' whatever it is that they're doing, 'and I want to take my saxophone and go out,' I would say, 'May God go with you. This is a great and noble thing that you're doing.'"

"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."

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

"The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her."

"The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art."

"Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize."

"I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand."

"Patience is the art of hoping."

"We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen."

"There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause."

"I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously."

"Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it."

"If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer."

"Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements."