My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Alchemy is the art of far and near and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things our dream-life the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings and every time I look at them I see something different.

There's no being wrong in seeing something in art only being disagreed with.

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul a capacity a secret art of thinking feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art that's what I love.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

If you don't get noticed you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed but the art is in getting noticed naturally without screaming or without tricks.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things this function can be more fully performed by this art which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand that kind of thing.

Form your life humanly and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves they run about loose hungering for employment and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations which have all to do with making things already made is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.