A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.
Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
I made a study of the ancient and indispensable art of bread-making,
Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Where thou art, that is home.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.
My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgements.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.