Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing….

Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy..

The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The fi….

There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God..

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of ….

When I listen to my songs, they seem like pieces of music or art, like a painting that you look at. The reality is that, yes, when I wrote the songs ….

It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our truth, much of our nobility and grace, and m….

Love doesn't exactly come with an off switch..

There's nothing there — get rid of that!.

Who do we belong with but each other?.

Everything is nothing, and nothing is everything..

i like james patterson.

It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the produc….

Bad things happen, it's your job to overcome them..

All great films are a resolution of a conflict between darkness and light. There is no single right way to express yourself. There are infinite possi….

We need to regain the art of civil discourse and more practically, I don't think you change anyone's mind by calling them names..

I open and fill with LOVE and what is not LOVE ... evaporates!.

Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the artist by repro….

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well..

I love Rihanna. She's such a beauty!.

What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish it from . . . pure commodities? A work of ar….