I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art poems schools theology displacing all that exists or that has been produced anywhere in the past under opposite influences.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Every happening great and small is a parable whereby God speaks to us and the art of life is to get the message.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and keep moving on.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth thou art not my abyss!

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger of having gone through an experience all the way to the end where no one can go any further.

One does not need buildings money power or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing and that is the place to train.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Even in literature and art no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will nine times out of ten become original without ever having noticed it.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble finding it everywhere diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Wherever art appears life disappears.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Art like morality consists in drawing the line somewhere.

I like things that are kind of eclectic when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style and that's what my work is about.

I think that narrative fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater art history architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history art architecture everything an illustrator needs. Europe is after all the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

That Moorish architecture is all over the place of course. It affects me everywhere I see it as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music architecture novels and plays. Anywhere that hits you.