arts

"Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time."

"Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art."

"I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money."

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."

"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."

"It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl."

"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."

"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."

"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."

"With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft."

"Great art picks up where nature ends."

"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."

"That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings."

"The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract."

"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself."

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

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

"I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this."

"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."

"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."