They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

Art is longer than life.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

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.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

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.

The genuine artist is never "true to life." He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.