We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that it is a natural outcome of a state of being; that the state of being is the important thing; that a man can be a carpenter and be a great man.
I'm an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand the way I live.
I wish art was like money in that the more I made, the more interest it developed and plentiful it became. Money makes money, and if art made art, there’s no prison in this country that could hold my creations.
Our senses and emotions are the great source of inspiration for creating compelling and interesting art pieces (books included). Each art piece, be it a book, a song, a painting, a photograph or a product should touch our senses and evoke emotions. E...
In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go to an arts middle school. Then, when high school came, I went to normal high school for a little while before auditioning for the Governor's School for...
Novelist: That's not art. A striptease isn't art. It's too direct. It's more direct than art. That woman's body up there? It's a big juicy steak. It's a glass of gin. It's a hormone extract. Streptomycin. Uranium!
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
Sometimes, remembering hurts too much.
War is sweet to those who have never fought.
Human history has no unique pattern of intelligibility.
We have come to Earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age - the best of all.
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.
Memory changes as a person matures.
Sadness, forever unacknowledged, eventually becomes resentment.
Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.
Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.
I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.
I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.
If you think you have it tough, read history books.
Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.
What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
