Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

Works of art often last forever or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves especially gallery exhibitions are like flowers they bloom and then they die then exist only as memories or pressed in magazines and books.

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations large paintings and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.

Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is intimacy spirituality color aspiration towards the infinite expressed by every means available to the arts.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Art has a double face of expression and illusion just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

What I dream of is an art of balance of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing calming influence on the mind rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

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

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

The art of art the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

There was an age however when the transition from savagery to civilization with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture took place for the first time.

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture not only in advanced technology allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks we must participate in the political struggle.

Every time a student walks past a really urgent expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college it can help reassure him that he does have that mind does have that soul.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.