I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear they are not tha….

The least-challenging way to make art for me would be to reinforce decorative formalism or find a way to extend entertainment values. Humor can somet….

To me, the lasting impression of any good wine is the thought of its maker. Those whose efforts transformed the fruits of the soil into a finished wo….

Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others..

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path..

This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a conce….

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation..

Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resis….

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value..

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call ….

I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, ….

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists..

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ….

PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only cri….

Thank god we don't know a lot about William Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautréamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful b….

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying….

I couldn't be more thankful to get my start on a soap opera. It was the hardest job I ever had. Got to practice in front of the camera, like, every d….

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and….

Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational..

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different..

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form..