The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts..

Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or liter….

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself..

Margaret Miles offers a stunning treatment of human experience, coaxing humans to leave dualisms behind and embrace our intelligent bodies. In a foun….

When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved..

Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort o….

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual wo….

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination..

Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around..

No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can only hope that you are alert - ready - to see. What….

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world..

I love being creative, and for me it doesn't matter what it is - whether it's art or music or just daydreaming..

Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist..

There are so many things in the world - in the cities - so much to see. Does art need to represent this variety and contribute to its proliferation? ….

When critics or people judge, I think it's harder to make a commercial, pop movie than it is to make a pretentious art film. It's harder to reach mil….

I really enjoyed Eddie Bracken. He told me a great story. He did The Odd Couple on Broadway, replacing Art Carney, and he said, "Art Carney did it fo….

The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing..

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art..

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts..

Architecture is the king or queen of the arts..

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality..