Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

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

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

Art is born of humiliation.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.