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.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

One of the things you're doing when you make art apart from entertaining yourself and other people is trying to see what ways of working feel good what feels right.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

I love doing normal things - movies shopping going out with friends writing reading taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

Becoming emancipated at 14 my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company Flower Films and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30 I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography and I want to take an art history class.

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries for instance to Africa but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.