No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.

More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.