#art

"Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically."

"Life is short, the art long."

"Don't try to follow trends. Create them."

"At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse."

"The human body is the best work of art."

"The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition."

"I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt."

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

"Our humor turns our anger into a fine art."

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

"Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness."

"At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale the inspiration of a poet, the research of a scientist, the good taste of an artist, the gourmet’s fondness for good food, and the love of flowers, which concealed in their delicate shadows a hint of the love of women"

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

"Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new film, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul."

"In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God's art."

"A composition—and every work of art is one—is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there will always be an element of chance in the creative process."

"My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the product of both; and my legacy is of the story of my soul, that my life left behind"

"You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves."

"Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their work. Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility."

"We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both."