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" Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything. "

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" The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself. "

Emmet Fox

Live

Moment

God

" Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that. "

" Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views. "

" Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. "

" Land really is the best art. "

" I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers. "

" I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Interesting

Want

Good

" So vast is art, so narrow human wit. "

" The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever. "

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

" Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better. "

" I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity. "

" Art is the objectification of feeling. "

" The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. "

" I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen. "

" When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part! "

Raina Telgemeier

Work

Done

" History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. "

" People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. "

" My painting does not come from the easel. "

" To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. "

" Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. "

" My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see. "

" To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. "

" I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes. "

" Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable. "

" Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. "

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Life

Water

" I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one side and romantic love on the other. Those, along with non-instrumental art, are supposed to get you through the day? "

" Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. "

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

" In order to figure this artmaking stuff out, it's trial and error and experimentation, and takes some time and hard thinking. Putting work out in many forms and stages is an extension of how I see things. I feel the art process is best served when it invites comments and constructive criticism from people. "