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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

I do like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I have admired him for 35 years. He is someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I am actually sleeping with him.

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

I love to collect modern art.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

I choose films for their artistic value. I do not need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It is delightful to distort size, to see something that is tiny as though it were vast.

Only in men is imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Rock is not art, it is the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I have just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it is not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called Tissues, this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.