Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.
The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry.
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.
I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.
I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.
At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them.
I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.
To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.
I don't really consider myself a model, to be honest. I respect designers; I think it's another art, you know.
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
