Art : (365)

" Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things. " - Elbert Hubbard

" I’m interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn’t deserve being glorified. Something that’s forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object. " - Edward Ruscha

" What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless. " - Jane Hirshfield

" My parents had this extraordinary circle of friends. My father would be photographing somebody every day, someone from the world of the arts, a politician, a musician, a sportsman. " - David Linley

" The natural does not have to be a specific representation. I am now working on a thing which is a reconstruction of a starry sky, yet I make it, nevertheless, without a given in nature. " - Piet Mondrian

" I had always loved Haitian art, but I stumbled onto Haiti quite by accident. I went there on vacation after finishing a movie called ‘The Delta Factor,’ and I met lot of painters and fell in love with their folk art. " - Yvette Mimieux

" Architecture is art, nothing else. " - Philip Johnson

" With manga, in my art style, I don’t do much in the way of techniques to create depth. But even though I don’t do depth techniques through my art, I am conscious of depth itself. " - Akira Toriyama

" Art is for the so-called nerds, and I’m one of those guys. " - Geno Smith

" I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I’m not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words. " - A. S. Byatt