Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him everybody sees them.

Art is not a thing, it is a way.

The artist is nothing without the gift but the gift is nothing without work.

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

The web then or the pattern a web at once sensuous and logical an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style that is the foundation of the art of literature.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

When you create art the world has to wait.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist because he prefers a great moment to everything.

A record deal doesn't make you an artist, you make yourself an artist.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

All in the Family was intellectual, it was art.

Art like morality consists in drawing the line somewhere.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Land really is the best art.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

There is an art to science and a science in art, the two are not enemies but different aspects of the whole.

Art is not a handicraft it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

The sadness of the incomplete the sadness that is often Life but should never be Art.

The sinews of art and literature like those of war are money.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does straight to our emotions deep into the twilight of the soul

The artist in me cries out for design.

I think what made it difficult for people to get and still makes it difficult for people to get is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied in the sum of his works the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

For art to exist for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

If you are going to break a Law of Art make the crime interesting.

Fame is the echo of actions resounding them to the world save that the echo repeats only the last art but fame relates all and often more than all.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them I'm going to grow artistically.

We want to answer this classical question 'who am I'? So I think that most of our works are for art or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

If thou art a man admire those who attempt great things even though they fail.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

I tried to keep both arts alive but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul perhaps a photograph can!

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings they're too afraid to express those feelings or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.

You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ or the miracles don't make sense.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

Without tradition art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation it is a corpse.

I can't tell you what an honor it is to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

In art the best is good enough.

The best thing commercially which is the worst artistically by and large is the most successful.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art after all but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training for it trains people as to how they shall think.

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

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

I embraced being a pop artist but I like doing it on my own terms at my own pace.

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts it is nothing without form.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell, The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

In truth politeness is artificial good humor it covers the natural want of it and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman I'm empowered I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art, men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

It is not in life but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

I am an artist and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on, science and art are as well.

The finest works of art are precious among other reasons because they make it possible for us to know if only imperfectly and for a little while what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me?

When nations grow old the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is he is a good man. If not he must be starved.

So many gods so many creeds so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

Even in literature and art no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will nine times out of ten become original without ever having noticed it.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently I get really depressed.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts or to empire that it is destructive of both as all their history shows for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Ultimately because I'm an artist I can't ever consider myself a nihilist so I suppose I'm optimistic.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

I think in art but especially in films people are trying to confirm their own existences.

A man that has a taste of music painting or architecture is like one that has another sense when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

To say that a work of art is good but incomprehensible to the majority of men is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

As we develop a regional economic-development strategy for Erie and Niagara counties we have identified tourism as one of our growth clusters. The arts and culture industry needs to be viewed as an economic-development sector.

It is no great art to say something briefly when like Tacitus one has something to say, when one has nothing to say however and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

The arts of peace are great And no less glorious than those of war.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene and as if by magic we see a new meaning in it.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course that was during his early low-budget art-house period.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

Works of art in my opinion are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order and that is why though I don't believe that only art matters I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice a continual extinction of personality.

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds the play will work better because it's a narrative art form.

It is easier for women to succeed in business the arts and politics in America than in Europe.

It was Public Art defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

I am a walking piece of art every day with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

The man who looks for security even in the mind is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.