arts

"I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become."

"Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid."

"I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!"

"Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!"

"To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul."

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

"Diversity: the art of thinking independently together."

"Art is for everybody."

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."

"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."

"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."

"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."

"We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."

"I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different."

"You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot."

"Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?"

"Politics is the art of the possible."

"Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books."

"I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller."

"Great art picks up where nature ends."