The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

It is not in life but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

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.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art poems schools theology displacing all that exists or that has been produced anywhere in the past under opposite influences.

The web then or the pattern a web at once sensuous and logical an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style that is the foundation of the art of literature.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

The loftier the building the deeper must the foundation be laid.