If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you..

In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see ….

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music..

Push on and faith will catch up with you..

The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. As the eye functions as the brain's sentry, I communi….

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of….

What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the ….

Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes..

What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known….

What I do is me, for that I came..

In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the de….

My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with..

Don't go to work to work, go to work to prosper..

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter..

But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One..

How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them; no question of mood and feeling; they hav….

I wrote my own first book about the defense of television as an art form in 1992. It was harder to make the argument then. Now it seems absolutely a ….

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone..

The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and ….

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better..

God is a geometrician..