When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man name live for thousands of years.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that is becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

There is a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There is a lot of sex, you know, in art. There is a lot of naked women and men, and there is intrigue, there is fakery. It is a real microcosm of the larger world.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

I am enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that is considered artistic, there is a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can not exist without it.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I do not think its fair that I am living for something I can not even define.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.