Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air….

Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is ….

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day..

Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory..

But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of ….

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors..

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?.

Ultimately, I want a peak experience in reading, and that is sometimes difficult to find in contemporary fiction. I'm not interested in books that ar….

Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing..

The TV show. Any time you're playing, this is the gift, you get to play someone else. You get to be someone who you're not..

That there needed neither art nor science for going to GOD, but only a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, or for His sak….

During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health..

Be careful what you wish for, I guess. I believe - this will sound bloated, but I believe it - that true art, the potent stuff, can take the world do….

It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written with a clear theory of art for art….

The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work don….

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is..

I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything….

Art is either revolution or plagiarism.

Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul..

I felt, "Oh, film is a great art because I can pull in music and visual imagery, and it has its literary aspects and drama." Film was a sort of Wagne….

The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power to waste, and th….