Alchemy is the art of far and near and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings and every time I look at them I see something different.

There's no being wrong in seeing something in art only being disagreed with.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

Form your life humanly and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.