Music is like art, so I just paint all my pictures and put 'em out there. Read Summary
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. Read Summary
I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I am no painter. I can neither by signs nor by pantomime express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer; but I can by tones, for I am a musician. Read Summary
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. Read Summary
How can we know the dancer from the dance? Read Summary
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. Read Summary
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. Read Summary
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. Read Summary
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. Read Summary
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. Read Summary
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. Read Summary
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. Read Summary
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. Read Summary
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. Read Summary
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. Read Summary
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. Read Summary
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. Read Summary
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. Read Summary
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. Read Summary
There is no blue without yellow and without orange. Read Summary