There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

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!

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

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.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

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

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

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

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

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

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.

The art is long, life is short.

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

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

It’s not easy to define poetry.

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

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

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

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

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

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

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

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.

‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

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

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

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

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

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

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.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

I’m not a very creative person, you know? I’m not really an art person. I’m not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

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.

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

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

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.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.