It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

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!

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‚What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?‘ And, ‚How does creativity apply across the board?‘

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

I could hardly sit through ‚Frozen.‘ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

I’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

In art the best is good enough.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

Barbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and approachable. I admire that.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

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.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don’t think they’re doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

There’s been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I’ve always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

The art is long, life is short.

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

I don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.

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.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he’s terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he’s a terrific actor.

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.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.