The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't..

Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I ge….

We are only what we do, not what we say we are..

I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw..

But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions..

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.

Just get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies, and just draw a picture of me saying, I apologize..

No one will ever touch Elvis.

Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. Ther….

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system..

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank..

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to pr….

From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at enormous speed….

[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris] [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as power;….

Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some in….

art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe not waiting; in any ca….

What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple….

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows ….

Celluloid heroes never feel any pain..

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentr….

It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being, but a person who has….