I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.