The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere. Use this quote
The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. Use this quote
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. Use this quote
When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process. Use this quote
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided. Use this quote
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn. Use this quote
I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art. Use this quote
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all. Use this quote
I hate art auctions. Use this quote
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. Use this quote
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious. Use this quote
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected. Use this quote
To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art. Use this quote
Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas. Use this quote
It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray. Use this quote
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. Use this quote
Painting is by nature a luminous language. Use this quote
To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form. Use this quote
