Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

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

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.

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.

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

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

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

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

I didn’t know the term ‚synesthesia‘ until I was working on ‚Cruel Summer.‘ Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

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

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

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

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

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

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

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!

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don’t have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

What’s with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

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.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.