Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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

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

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

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

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement – it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

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

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

I’ve started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I’d be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

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

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

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.

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.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.