As one gets older, one can get tired. But only when your heart gives out does your strength give in. For me, all this is an affair of the heart.
Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.
Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface.
It isn't necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality whole, is what is interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful.
Design has to work. Art does not.
Art and architecture - all the arts - do not have to exist in isolation.
There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time.
Silence is the tortured man's revenge.
Religious insights and values are just as important today as they were 50 or 100 years ago.
Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, the fire dancing in his eyes; his wand was raised like a torch and from its tip emanated the flames, like a vast lasso, encircling them all with warmth.