We don't have the choice to control our emotions, but we do have the power to educate our emotions. And we do that through literature and through art….

I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answe….

Being an artist and a musician, I have witnessed the previous generation taking the art form, not as a way of making a living, but as a belief, an al….

When we get to the future, I'll decide the future..

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, w….

The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art..

On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play..

I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and then to combine t….

I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind form all repress….

When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and….

Art for me is the science of freedom..

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom..

Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable in physiologic….

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to ….

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is….

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so..

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt..

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discove….

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family all….

I'm a writer who doesn't much think about money because money doesn't really care about me. In other nations, art gets subsidized. Writers aren't wea….

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it..