I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it's about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

I believe that a good comic script can succeed despite being drawn badly, but that a bad script can't be saved by good art. Of course, great writing and great illustration makes for a great comic 100 percent of the time.

Nudity has never seemed to bother Grace Jones. Her art has thrived, in part, on a physical candor that both shocked people and redrew the boundaries of taste, beauty, and eroticism around her masculinity, ebony skin, and unrelenting intensity.

As a younger man, I thought the best thing art could do was to challenge people's mindsets, and I still do, but I've come round to the value of entertainment. A show like 'The Interceptor,' which gives the audience that release, after a hard day, of just sitting down and enjoying themselves - that adds value to lives, too.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

It's clever, but is it Art?

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

My painting does not come from the easel.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

For work, I wear art; in real life, I wear clothes.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

In 'Art as Therapy', we argue that art is a tool that can variously help to inspire, console, redeem, guide, comfort, expand and reawaken us.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

Art depends on luck and talent.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

All great art is born of the metropolis.