Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effec….

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind i….

I vill now destroy the snickuh bahrs!.

But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for th….

Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this planet for hundreds of years. It is the only ….

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it..

Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed as he did only thi….

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work..

When you are in love- everything is romantic.

Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and i….

The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now..

As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves..

In living, as in art, rules are drawn from practice; not the other way around..

Art is all about becoming a name, a brand; it isn't based on talent or creativity..

Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made so by man; that man alone of all th….

The one is none other than the All, the All none other than the One..

Kempo is for the street first; everything else is secondary..

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to s….

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

To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things tha….

It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night..