Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, 'Snow White and the Huntsman' is a considerable experience.
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
Comic-Con has been an amazing experience. It's overwhelming, I have to admit, because of the lines and the crowds.
If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.
That's the great thing about being a writer. You dream up amazing questions... and then dream up even more amazing answers.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.
I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
