Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

All in the Family was intellectual it was art.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.