Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural..

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced..

No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by absolute rules, physics, chemistry, etc.….

Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for the world. The work of t….

Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange….

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question..

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….