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….

All history is the history of thought..

Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win.

I still think science is looking for answers and art is looking for questions..

The meeting of science and art is definitely interesting for the 21st century, and I think to use scientific expertise and knowledge to preserve an a….

There are very few good writers about art, and you either get art-fashion writing with trendy views or you get very traditional writing. Occasionally….

Being alone is and nothing is altogether not..

Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food..

From film to film, I realize my strengths and my weakness, and I realize how much better I get. I learn the lingo, I ask questions and I'm on set try….

If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy. For I sought to t….

I communicate my innermost perceptions through art..

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low..

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract..