If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring thes….

In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted..

Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction..

An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and wo….

Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to uni….

Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs..

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision..

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever….

One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art..

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected..

In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is between one man using a….

Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should keep an anxious eye….

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser..

An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention or eff….

So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he lo….

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order..

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost calle….

Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money ….

I am damnably sick of Italy, Italian and Italians, outrageously, illogically sick.... I hate to think that Italians ever did anything in the way of a….

Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they….

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring..