The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart..

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh..

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius..

There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that ….

She wants to lead the glamorous life, but without love, it ain't much..

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology..

As a model you have to convey something with one look - and actors will have a scene and they can sort of do it, but models have to convey what photo….

Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about ….

The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical s….

In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived….

I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a PhD in comparative literature so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books whic….

There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way..

The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called actres….

Art is dedicated echo..

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing..

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..