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" The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. "

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" Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

" 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. "

" A painting that is well composed is half finished. "

" It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray. "

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

" To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. "

" I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it? "

" Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear. "

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

" A line is a dot that went for a walk. "

" Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. "

" Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. "

" Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" Though German art can never be Bavarian, but simply German, yet Munich is the capital of this German Art; here, under shelter of a Prince who kindles my enthusiasm, to feel myself a native and member of the people was, to me, the homeless wanderer, a deep, a genuine need. "

" A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. "

" I love playing with makeup. Makeup has become a thing where it's an art form. It's not a thing where you use it because you need to feel beautiful or because you don't like the way you look. "

" Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less. "

" O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me. "

Ludwig van Beethoven

" Cleanliness is the scourge of art. "

" 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. "

" A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. "

" Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. "

" For me, pop culture is very fluid: it's music, it's movies, it's books, it's art, it's tech, it's so many things - and as marketing and brand advocates, we should be able to to take products and services and match them to what's happening in pop culture. "

Bozoma Saint John

" To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. "

" The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. "

" It appears to be monumental only because it's art. "

" Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. "

Madame de Stael

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

" Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. "