My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.
The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars.
When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.
Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama.
I'm very happy to be a part of a very successful piece of art, as the 'Saw' films have been. One gets into this to participate. It's the coming together of a good story. So, that aspect of it has been just splendid. It really has nothing to do with m...
I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.
