In our conversations, he [Michael Jackson] revealed a surprising understanding of art history. We were going through the finer points of the differen….

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is..

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture,….

A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she has cultivated them. The possession o….

Necessity is the author of change..

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts..

Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way..

Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we shut down and hide out in our h….

I'd say art is with you. All around you. I'd say when there doesn't seem to be anyone else, there is art. I'd say you can love art how you wish to be….

And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of wate….

Mary O'Neal used to say that I was teaching her course in disguise, as she said "in cultural disguise." What she meant was that this really was a ver….

In 1951 I took my first art course. And one day I looked over my shoulder and there was this tall gentleman standing, very well-dressed and groomed, ….

What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were..

I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it..

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and scienc….

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made..

Art is what separates us from the animals..

When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art..

Ive zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and a….

Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects..

Change art to include yourself..