Art

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

"If you know the why, you can live any how."

"Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you."

"The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers."

"Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep."

"In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."

"Intimacy is a difficult art."

"All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique."

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."

"The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest."

"To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."