For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to ….

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is….

We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire..

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so..

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt..

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discove….

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family all….

Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously ….

I'm a writer who doesn't much think about money because money doesn't really care about me. In other nations, art gets subsidized. Writers aren't wea….

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it..

Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions..

Picture-taking is an ensemble art-like theater..

As a young kid I was in love with breakdancing. I practiced the uprock style, which is a battle style of dance that looks like fighting. It comes fro….

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion..

He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before himself a masterpiece. True art was mor….

The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate a work of art, we must bring wi….

This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal heart..

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect..

The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece..

I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more t….

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice..