And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that is never recaptured again by that poet. "
Fine art is knowledge made visible.
I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, and least of all, to any regime except the regime of liberty.
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language, the words of which consist of all visible objects. An object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting.
Miss Manners herself, while never rude, is given to pulling a fast pinch in the way of a handshake on those who believe in kissing on, not even the first date, but the first sighting.
It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.
Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I. " And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.
When I was a 21-year-old intern at CBS, I was told I had crossed eyes and shouldn't try to be on air. That's when I decided I was going to be behind the scenes.