art

“While our art cannot save us from wars or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.”
“Exuberance is Beauty.”
“The nakedness of woman is the work of God.”
“He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.”
“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
“A hymn is the praise of God with song; a song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.”
“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.”
“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”
“I like boring things.”
“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.”
“All art is quite useless.”
“A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death.”
“I've got nature and art and poetry, and if that isn't enough, what is?”
“Move like a beam of light; fly like lightning; strike like thunder; whirl in circles around a stable center.”
“If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.”
“I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the world.”
“One of the satisfactions of fiction is the selective order it imposes upon the confusion of a lived life.”
“Writers take words seriously — perhaps the last professional class that does.”
“A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude.”
“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”