Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.

One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?

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

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

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides.

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.

And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.