He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
In art the best is good enough.
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.
I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in.
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.
Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has...
Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.
Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with.
Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.
What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.
The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words... and then you start to create a work of art, and that's another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, o...
