Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
What is art? Prostitution.
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.
I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.