In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age..

But I could be wrong..

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter..

The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas..

If we actually love what we're doing and we go and do what we love, and every day we get up because we're really happy to get up and go and do what w….

There are... scientific works - star catalogues, for example - which are not art; but the theoretical structures of Gauss, Einstein, or Maxwell are o….

Strength is for service, not status.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation..

What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking in painting, as opposed to th….

Explore everything; keep the best.

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you..

In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see ….

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music..

Push on and faith will catch up with you..

The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. As the eye functions as the brain's sentry, I communi….

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of….

What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the ….

Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes..

What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known….

What I do is me, for that I came..

In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the de….