I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
I would like to do all kinds of things: photography and art and designing; I want to help do charity things for animals and things like that.
It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
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.
