#art

"What a comfort to know that God is a poet."

"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."

"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."

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

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

"No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host."

"The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son."

"There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future."

"Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back."

"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."

"Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance."

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

"Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

"I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

"Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth."

"Life is short, the art long."

"I shut my eyes in order to see."

"I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!"

"The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…"