Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the colorist. Color becomes significant only when it becomes form.

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

when you unfriend the people you need, soon you will have to befriend the people you don't need

Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence.

to have goals without a plan and a time limit was as useless as having no goals at all.

We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.

Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid

I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.

I started working when I was 9 or 10.

And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.