The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or s...
It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.
I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
Dancing was my sport when I was younger. So I chose that over everything. And then, I just had to keep going because it became a competitive thing. But I'm not trying to impress anyone anymore. Dancing is more like my art, now.
I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.
It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll ha...
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 don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
