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Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.

 

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find working with glass meditative, almost therapeutic. I can leave the world behind, and focus... The simplicity of form, the drama of rich, intense colour, the joy of challenge, and the challenge of endurance... The piece, when it is over, is not what is made, but how it is made.

 

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Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. [1804]

 

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Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

 

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

 

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I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.

 

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Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.

 

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Good art can not be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.



Goethe:

 

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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

 

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Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive nervous systems.

 

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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

 

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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

 

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The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

 

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Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.

The Artist's Way

 

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I feel there are two people inside me -- me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.

 

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Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

 

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Art will remain the most

 

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Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.

 

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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

 

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.