I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.

If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

One eye sees, the other feels.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.

To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art.

There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.

In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?