You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented..

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too..

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing..

I don’t create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art..

The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and m….

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care..

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism..

When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost..

Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened an….

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it..

What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less….

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings..

Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can ….

Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them..

An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy..

Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its ne….

A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study o….

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger..

My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must com….

Although I'm certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I'm fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic off….

For Hannibal, it's really about food as art and also, Hannibal's specific brand of art. And I guess I'm a bit of a foodie..