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" Space is the breath of art. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

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" But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. "

" Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. "

" Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time. "

" Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

" I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration. "

" I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" There is nothing new in art except talent. "

" I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film. "

David Cronenberg

" There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering! "

Diane von Furstenberg

" Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. "

" The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it. "

" One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head. "

" I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy. "

" Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. "

Stand-Up Comedy

" There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty. "

" Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. "

" Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. "

" I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music. "

" I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. "

" I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. "

" To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. "

" My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now! "

Angela Cartwright

" The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. "

" The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy. "

" Politics is the art of controlling your environment. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. "

" I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. "

" The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art. "

" My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it. "

Fernando Botero

" The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn. "