Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

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.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

I call architecture frozen music.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

I don’t want followers.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

Sometimes I think that there’s a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

Life is short, the art long.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don’t know what that is; I don’t think too much about that.

All art is quite useless.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Law, without force, is impotent.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

All art is dependent on technology because it’s a human endeavour, so even when you’re using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that’s technology.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.