#art

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

"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art."

"Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite."

"العلم يكتشف أما الفن فيبدع. إن ضوء النجم البعيد الذي إكتشفه العلم كان موجودا قبل إكتشافه, أما الضوء الذي يلقيه الفن علينا ، فقد أبدعه الفن بنفسه في اللحظة نفسها."

"When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift."

"Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind."

"I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started yet."

"I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?"

"Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it."

"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."

"The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything."

"I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life."

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

"Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success."

"That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire."

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

"There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself."

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

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

"Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget."