The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

I believe only in art and failure.

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.