Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.