Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself stretched to terrible proportions once inflamed the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.

Hairdressers are professional gossips when only the hands are busy the tongue is seldom still.

It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men.

It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war.

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

My art became very public.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.