The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspir….

You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science and Art at their ….

There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is always the same: recognition. If it works, y….

I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw It meant you could have an art work which was that idea of an art work, and….

That celebrated marriage of science and art, photography, seemed at the time to join together how we look at the world, art, with how we were coming ….

True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation.

The asp doth on his feeder feed..

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life..

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck..

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough..

If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has given mankind a….

Writers are idiots with Underwoods..

The point of Berlin was that it seemed that only people like you ran the city. You never ran into people who weren't like you - especially when you l….

With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of ….

I'm still totally going out and sleeping on people's floors so I can play a house show and give away music. Of course I would. That's how I started. ….

We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The fe….

Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the sa….

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound..

I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel like a mystery that is invit….

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult..

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science..