#art

"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for."

"Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while."

"The public wants work which flatters its illusions."

"We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents."

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."

"A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable."

"The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying."

"The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle."

"The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence."

"Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her."

"What you see is what you see"

"Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing."

"If a picture paints a thousand words, then a let a picture inspire a thousand words."

"To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes."

"Everything you can imagine is real."

"I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…"

"Art is whatever you can get away with."

"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time."

"Colour is a power which directly influences the soul."

"Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting."